For what it’s worth, we don’t have a ton of insight into the algorithms driving the recommendations, beyond knowing what they take as inputs, and the additional constraints/modifications we place on their outputs. (But based on observing the recommendations for a while, it doesn’t seem like “this post has active discussion on it” is much of a factor.)
Anyways, we’re happy to have people switch back to the Latest tab for whatever reason and don’t currently have any plans to get rid of it. (Phrased defensively because I am sometimes surprised by proposals from others on the team, but at any rate I would strongly oppose getting rid of it unless there was a similarly-legible replacement that served a similar purpose.)
I’m also an edge case, I think for newer users there’s probably a much higher chance they’re getting recommended stuff they haven’t seen, which seems probably good.
(I somehow managed to miss that you were getting recommended a bunch of stuff you’d already read, so it’s possible my response was a bit confusing. As Ruby says, we’re trying to get already-read content filtered out, though it’s not doing a perfect job, especially for long-term users who’ve read a decent chunk of the posts on the site.)
For what it’s worth, we don’t have a ton of insight into the algorithms driving the recommendations, beyond knowing what they take as inputs, and the additional constraints/modifications we place on their outputs. (But based on observing the recommendations for a while, it doesn’t seem like “this post has active discussion on it” is much of a factor.)
Anyways, we’re happy to have people switch back to the Latest tab for whatever reason and don’t currently have any plans to get rid of it. (Phrased defensively because I am sometimes surprised by proposals from others on the team, but at any rate I would strongly oppose getting rid of it unless there was a similarly-legible replacement that served a similar purpose.)
Appreciate the feedback re: desiderata!
I’m also an edge case, I think for newer users there’s probably a much higher chance they’re getting recommended stuff they haven’t seen, which seems probably good.
(I somehow managed to miss that you were getting recommended a bunch of stuff you’d already read, so it’s possible my response was a bit confusing. As Ruby says, we’re trying to get already-read content filtered out, though it’s not doing a perfect job, especially for long-term users who’ve read a decent chunk of the posts on the site.)