Would Lemmy.World admins consider changing how the featured community spotlight, and trending communities work?

So since I joined in early May, that Raj zone community or whatever its called was the highlighted community. That ran for about 2 months that I know of. It's a very active and popular community.

Today I see it's finally changed. Now it's comic strips. Which ALSO looks like an active community. So my theory is, and I may be wrong, but my theory is that these spotlights drive huge amounts of traffic. Which is great......but it's spread so thin. One community for 2 months is waaaay too long.

What if it became the "community of the day"? And maybe it could focus on smaller, lesser known communities. And if that days community ISN'T for you personally, just wait until tomorrow.

And then there's the trending section. More often than not, I see a community in the trending section, click it, and theres zero posts. One time I even saw zero posts, and moderator locked so only moderators can make posts.....which they hadn't.

So whats the point of saying they're trending, if theres zero to little activity? I say to become a trending community, you should have minimum 10 posts in the past 30 days, and 30 comments the past 30 days.

So, site admins, can we make this happen? New community spotlight everyday, maybe it's a dead community, and a trending community section which has been trending lately.

And as I think of this, I just realized the trending communities will only be the same most popular ones. So maybe trending communities can only appear once per month?

AchtungDrempels ,

I would like if there was like a set of 10 communities per month that would randomly be featured.

ericjmorey ,

And then there’s the trending section.

That's just a bug the Lemmy project software that isn't being given any priority by the current developers. Hopefully someone takes the time to submit a fix to the code.

kitnaht ,

Week. People need to have time to go outside and touch grass.

Lost_My_Mind OP ,

Me: "This concept is cool, but I see some room for improvement. How about these ideas?"

You: "Why you spending time on Lemmy, bro? I say this as I also am spending time on Lemmy."

numberfour002 ,

Quite frankly, the toxic to non-toxic user ratio here is a bit higher than I would hope for and expect. But kudos to you for confronting the toxicity that drives people away! I do appreciate your effort.

s38b35M5 ,
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I think you and OP misread "week" to mean "weak." @kitnaht meant the spotlight should rotate weekly, giving people time to see it before it changes.

kitnaht ,

I thought the worlds reading comprehension rate was supposed to be higher than it's ever been, but apparently not...you are absolutely right, I was suggesting a WEEKLY rotation, not daily; and everyone seems to have read it as me calling them "weak". Fucking Lemmy...I guess neither of these two understood that people aren't on lemmy every single day of their lives. And having a 24 hr rotation would lead to a lot of them being missed.

Not criticizing people for using Lemmy...there's no irony here, just a bunch of people trained to be offended at every single little thing.

lost_faith ,

People need to have time to go outside and touch grass.

I think this is what did you in. You forget how much people hate to be told to go do something that they cannot for many reasons, like no grass outside ;) also that is usually meant as an insult. Personally I am only here during work hours lol

ericjmorey ,

I took the comment you replied to as a suggestion to make the spotlight change weekly because people are not always on Lemmy World everyday.

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