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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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 — 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!
Nice post, this question gets overlooked a lot in community platforms.
One thought: have you looked into how tag-follows affect personalized recommendations or feed relevance at scale?