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# Updates to the UI/UX


Over the past several months the Blurt Core team has been adding several updates to the front end to improve the user experience and to build a foundation for the next 100K users. 

Here are some of the notable changes:

## Trending and Hot Pages 
The trending and hot pages are the center of Blurt content visibility, where users compete to reach the top positions by writing quality content that grabs everyone's attention. 

Recently there have been some experimental changes made to the trending page algo at a front-end level, which have been pushed to Blurt.blog and other UI's that have chosed to upgrade.  

Previously, the trending page took into consideration the total vote value of a post. The greater the vote value the higher the post placement on the Trending and Hot page. 

The changes now considers the number of votes any post gets and not just on the vote weight. The idea behind this change is to decentralise content curation to represent the greater community preference and not just of a single centralised stakeholder or upvote service.

Centralised content placement is similar to a 51% attack on content visibility and should not be desirable by the community. The content visibility should be a representation of the community views and values as a whole.

### Why did we make the changes?
Many users had shared their opinions about the trending page being controlled by vote trading services or individual voters. 

Many users felt this was unfair to the users who put time and effort into producing quality content only to be pushed down in visibiloity by big votes on low-effort posts voted by vote trading services or posts that only serve to create disunity within the community by a small segment of voters. 

After receiving user feedback and careful consideration the Dev team began changing the trending parameters. 

Below are a few parameters available for adjustment:

1. Vote value
2. Number of votes received 
3. User engagement  
4. A mix of the number of votes, vote value, reblurts, and comments

The dev team is experimenting with these options currently until we find the best fit. Trending is a live page that changes often so the changes were pushed to production to see how the new changes affected the trending page and how the users reacted to the changes made. 

The team has received some quality feedback from the users and now has plans to implement new changes.