My conclusion from the comments is this: There are specific users here that want to use this site in order to be delivered extremely relevant information according to very specific interests (#tags). This new update ultimately and unfairly benefits users who want to be delivered interesting, but definitely more random content. While this is a primary goal of the site, I think there are a few tweaks that could be added to also include users like kleinbl00 who want to stick to less randomness. My proposal? An "upvote" system that is personal to each users preference of tags. Put another way, a system that adds weight to a specific tag which in turn determines frequency of posts in their main feed; possibly a popularity threshold requirement with the following properties. - numbers of submissions per day
- divided by the number of upvotes in the first hour
- a logarithmic type scale determines this And for you TL;DR types
You'd get to upvot #technology to +3 in order to see more technology related posts.