i'm fine with filtering out highly-ranked global content. this was my main problem with reddit: it was difficult to filter out highly-ranked content that i didn't want to see. hubski has solved this, but still makes it easily available on the global pages (equivalent to the difference between reddit's frontpage of your subscriptions and /r/all). highly-ranked content that is outside my filter bubble of followed users is okay to keep off the front page. but i want to see content from people i've followed that hasn't been voted on very much. afiact you only provide feeds for "hot" content from people i've followed, no feeds for obscure content. i also want to see globally obscure content promotion on the main page. i am fine with seeing new content outside my filter bubble, and it's available on the low-ranked global pages, but users have to actually think about it and then go there. most users are consumption-oriented, and will look at the front page briefly, upvote things that are already highly-ranked, and then be done. if you can divert attention from the main page to new content, you will improve the ability of new content to get off the ground. i don't remember the "global post" mixing feature. did it show new global posts, or highly ranked global posts?
I think it was a mixture of both. It basically spliced your front page with a global front page. I have been thinking on this, and I am considering removing the 9 divisions of the global feed, and just having one global feed. Then your feed and the global feed can both be sorted by activity (the current ranking algo) and time. Thus, there would be two feeds, each which could be sorted by two ways. I think the global feed may exclude anything in your feed. But I am not sure about that. If this didn't prove sufficient, we could always add a new sort, something like 'rising'.i don't remember the "global post" mixing feature. did it show new global posts, or highly ranked global posts?