rynocerator Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 As the title suggests, the popular now section disappeared from my homepage a while back. Does anyone know if this is intended, or how to get it back? Thanks very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 (PSN)B0XMAN517 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) I think it was done to cut back on the "bandwagon" threads that either turn into echo chambers or derail into back and forth insults. These are the threads that usually remain "hot" or "popular" the longest. I disagree with the change as it hides important topics along with the others, but can see why they did it. A notice would have been nice though so we weren't left guessing if it was even intentional or not. Edited September 10, 2016 by (PS4)B0XMAN517 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LogaMC1995 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Popular Now box will only appear when a thread or more gets "popular", like getting a lot of comments and views in short time. So if there's no thread met that requirements, the box will simply vanish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 OnTarasMind Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I feel like the change was intended to cut down on the amount of people replying to troll posts, angry posts, posts with lack of constructive criticism, and other things along those lines. With those kinds of posts becoming less popular due to there being no popular now sidebar, it'll cut down on headaches in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cazzzz Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 It's been missing from my page also. I would assume there are plenty of posts getting enough relevance to appear there, but it just doesn't seem to be there any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Datsher Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 3 minutes ago, LogaMC1995 said: Popular Now box will only appear when a thread or more gets "popular", like getting a lot of comments and views in short time. So if there's no thread met that requirements, the box will simply vanish. Except there are multiple threads "hot" right now and there's no popular now box. DE probably removed the box to prevent people from replying to popular threads in off-topic or about to be locked threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WERElektro Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 I haven't seen the box in quite a while... which indicates that they didn't just turn down the rate of posts that get shown, but that it's a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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As the title suggests, the popular now section disappeared from my homepage a while back. Does anyone know if this is intended, or how to get it back? Thanks very much!
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