Idea: nudge “From the Archives” so it tends to show different users the same posts around the same time, so if someone leaves a comment on a post they read, others might also see the comment and a discussion can happen. (Or alternatively, I suppose you could just upweight posts which recently received comments in the “From the Archives” selection process. That seems better.)
(Or alternatively, I suppose you could just upweight posts which recently received comments in the “From the Archives” selection process. That seems better.)
This is much simpler and I think makes for a pretty good default plan.
(There’s also the question of “the recent discussion section doesn’t currently do a good enough job of highlighting recent comments to address this whole concern automatically. I’m curious if people have opinions on what would improve that situation)
I’d go a step stronger. Brainstorm: From the Archives should have a random order for some time period (e.g. something from a day to a week) and show you the three things highest on that list that you haven’t read.
The problem with this approach is that we randomize recommendations on each load, and it’s not obvious how to do this while preserving that functionality (which I think is really key for the whole thing to work).
Fwiw, on other sites I sometimes find that I see something interesting just as I’m clicking away, and then when I come back the interesting thing is gone. Making the recommendations a little sticky would help with that. (I see they don’t reload if I use the back button, so that might be sufficient.)
Idea: nudge “From the Archives” so it tends to show different users the same posts around the same time, so if someone leaves a comment on a post they read, others might also see the comment and a discussion can happen. (Or alternatively, I suppose you could just upweight posts which recently received comments in the “From the Archives” selection process. That seems better.)
This is much simpler and I think makes for a pretty good default plan.
(There’s also the question of “the recent discussion section doesn’t currently do a good enough job of highlighting recent comments to address this whole concern automatically. I’m curious if people have opinions on what would improve that situation)
I’d go a step stronger. Brainstorm: From the Archives should have a random order for some time period (e.g. something from a day to a week) and show you the three things highest on that list that you haven’t read.
The problem with this approach is that we randomize recommendations on each load, and it’s not obvious how to do this while preserving that functionality (which I think is really key for the whole thing to work).
Fwiw, on other sites I sometimes find that I see something interesting just as I’m clicking away, and then when I come back the interesting thing is gone. Making the recommendations a little sticky would help with that. (I see they don’t reload if I use the back button, so that might be sufficient.)
A ‘remind me what recommendations you’ve given me recently’ list being available to be clicked on might be nice?
Yeah, agree with that. Not sure where to put a link to that, but will figure something out.