Yeah, it does seem very much that you dont understand what I am pointing at. The empty feed is your setting, the trending, hot, new pages are your features.
The reality of "how Hive works" on frontend side is the reality you set. Because I know how all of it works is why I am saying the post is for no one and everything that you call "how Hive works" is a fault of a poor discovery systems. You are moving your responsibility onto the user and we can pretend as much as we want thats enough, while a decade of the same thing shows its not.
This post is just one more in the long line of attempts to showcase "see how we look out for new users" when in practice, this does nothing for new users, is written realistically for no one and can be seen as an excuse to do nothing.
March 24 2016 is when Steemit launched. In terms of social media discovery, new systems you have not moved a single inch. In 10 years. You are still writing the same posts from 10 years ago: "What to do when you start using Hive (steem at the time)".
Personalized feeds certainly can increase engagement but they also introduce opaque ranking, user profiling, filter bubbles and divergence between frontends. We've intentionally been cautious about moving in that direction because one of Hive's strengths is that the underlying content graph is shared and transparent. Any proposals to introduce new standard takes time... https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hivemind/-/merge_requests/1169
And not used at all. All of the data is free and volunteered and you are not using it at all. You rank on follow and payout.
Youre using AI to write your comment, asking it: "How to refute this."
Obvious since it left in divergence between frontends in as a bad thing. All it does is make you admit yourself that none of you do anything differently in any meaningful way. As if divergence would somehow be bad.
You have not been cautious in anything. You have maintained the POB based ranking.
You are not preserving transparency in any way youre just avoiding building better product layers on top of the data that already exists TRANSPARENTLY and freely onchain.
And beyond that every single criticism of algos can easily be shot down, worked around, kinks flattened.
Yet, you do nothing and call it intentional.
You are right, perhaps we haven't utilized already available data as much or not moving as fast.
Alrite dude.😂
We actually have several discovery mechanisms already, including the recently improved "Read Next" recommendations shown after opening every post, along with communities, search, standard Following feeds, notifications and more. There's always room to improve but simply saying "improve discovery" doesn't identify what is missing or how it should work. If you have specific ideas or proposals, we're happy to hear them and discuss them.
Stop pushing work that is your primary reason for existing onto someone else in an attempt to shut down your responsibility.
This is your responsibility to build, entirely, fully and 100%. Not 99%, not 75%, 100%.