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Where are the hot new questions?
SE and other Q/A answer forums have listings on the main page detailing recent activity in certain groups. I would like to see what communities are asking. Does Codidact have a "hot new" questions explorer? Is there a metric for what would be considered interesting or engaging here? Is that a reasonable request given Codidact's community first policy?
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| bowl0stu | (no comment) | Dec 17, 2025 at 16:16 |
We currently have community-specific "hot" questions but don't yet have network-wide ones. The proposals community doesn't have any recent-enough questions to qualify, but if you look at, for example, Electrical Engineering or Meta, you'll see hot posts there. "Hotness" requires a minimum score, which can be customized per-community.
Codidact does have cross-community promoted posts. Unlike hot posts, promoted posts are human-driven. (I know that the algorithmic hot-questions list at SE had some undesired effects.) Moderators can nominate posts for promotion, and they will sometimes show up as quasi-ads in the sidebar column. It looks like this is currently an underused feature; I tried to get an example to screenshot but didn't hit one on several reloads. (Promotions expire so they don't get stale, so we need to keep feeding things in.)
We have also talked about having a page that shows the newest questions across the network. This is in our backlog. Meanwhile, you can use the dashboard to see where there is new activity.
Bottom line: we have aspirations and limited developer time. We do want to make cross-community awareness better!
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