Reordering of Items on List Pages
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 - 1:51 pm - News
Today we changed the way items are shown on pages that contain a list of several items on our content sites. The change is visible network-wide on the homepage, channel page, tag page and user page, and it is relevant to all media types.
Up until now, items were sorted and displayed in a descending order from the most recently published item. From now on, items are sorted and displayed according to their popularity, using our “Hot Content” algorithm. In the near future we are planning to add the option for you to choose how you’d like the items sorted (by popularity, by date, by most liked, etc.)
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An excellent upgrade idea. Also, have you considered creating some place to display brief Author profiles or methods for Authors to connect? Often the creators can be even more interesting than the creation.
Also, have you considered of enabling the profile fields for the user available to edit?
It seems that this new ordering system lowers the number of views… I think i much preferred when the work was displayed chronologically. That way people could click on your name just to check for your latest releases, now they have to dig to find the most recent work published.
Thanx
I agree with JNV. I have had great clicks and now they have stopped dead. I submitted three articles in the past week and it seems no one knows they are there. Our regular readers are used to checking to see what’s new just by clicking on our names. No clicks, or low clicks doesn’t really give incentive for us to write if we feel they are not being seen.
Thank you,
Darlene
JNV and Darlene,
We appreciate your feedback on this matter.
In the future we will be introducing some methods to gain more control over list ordering, so that the content will be best served to viewers who have their own ordering preferences.
In the meantime we have reverted the writer’s page to order articles by their publish date.
Please also note that the RSS feeds throughout the content network remain ordered by date, and that should be the preferred way to stay updated with new items by a certain writer or on a certain topic.
The new algorithm we introduced encourages more views from new readers to your articles, as better quality content propagates up in the lists.