Frontpage list algorithm updated
Published by Leon February 17th, 2006 in News Tags: feature, listible, news.Listible used to display all time popular lists in the frontpage. This setup has advantages and disadvantages - Visitor could access the most popular lists easily, however this may not good for regular visitors as they come across those lists already, and the good lists may be buried from the all-time populars.
To promote more on the new lists, we have introduced a time factor to the algorithm. So there are certain lists that has enough votes and freshness before it displays in the frontpage. We have moved the all time popular lists (without any time factor) to a sub-page.
We will constantly tweak this to make it work better. Try this feature and we hope you will like it.
hello everybody,
the ‘alltimes-popular’ - update looks like very smart and a good idea to me …
the only thing, first moment after login today, i was a bit confused, missing the alltimes even … a bit later i’ve found the link to them, but it took a bit … so maybe putting a advice somewhere under the logo-div or making the link to the all times popular a bit more visible would help … (by changing the background-color of the or of the above, or just highligting this link as random maybe, etc.) … or something like that …
one more thing, on the http://blog.listible.com (i mean the frontpage of the blog), there is a link to the comments, but there is no link like ‘add a post/comment’ on this site (u need to click the comments link, scroll the page down looking for the ‘comment-form’ and if there was a huge list of comments already maybe i’ve stopped looking to add a post after this …
nice greetings from vienna
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I Like the update Leon - certainly will make for a fresher homepage. I agree that regular users may at first be a little confused as to what happened but they’ll figure it out soon enough. I don’t think you need to highlight the change to let people know.
Nice work mate.
You also need some filters to prevent duplicate resource entries… there are so many duplicates in the Web 2.0 list.
@Adam: There are already some filters in place for precheck duplicate resources already, but we will see how to improve it. (Also I have gone through the huge web 2.0 list but couldn’t find any dup as of now. Seems all of them has reported to moderators and removed.)