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Are tag follows not used for the home page feeds?

I've admittedly been a lot les active on dev.to for a while, and so a lot of the people I follow are old accounts who no longer publish much content on dev.to, if any. So when I go to look at my home feed, both "Discover" and "Following", most of what I see are posts from the DEV team.

I do, however, follow a fair number of tags, ranging from various programming languages, to #explainlikimfive and similar. Those do still get some activity, but I'm not seeing any of their posts on my home feed. Are they not considered? When I look at the top 7 posts overview, I do see that there's still some great stuff being published to the site, but I don't really have a good way to discover it, other than those posts right now.

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Ben Halpern

They are, but it's also a mix of other signals and some of the less popular tags kind of fade away. It's all about a balancing act β€” but this is valuable feedback because we want to strike the right balance and we're aware of the current imbalance you're describing.

Great to see you around Frederik!