There’s a series of questions that I’d like us to be able to answer:
- Is Hot valuable as its designed today as a homepage on Meta?
- It Hot valuable as its designed today as a homepage for any types of communities?
- Is Hot valuable as its designed today in general?
We can answer these questions by:
- Talking to users on Meta about their experience with Hot as the default homepage on Meta.
- Polling admins about their use of Hot in their communities, as a homepage and as a general sorting option.
- Get connected with community members to learn more about their experiences with Hot and their workflows in general so we can get more information about what members want / need out of these homepage options.
The outcomes to these questions could point us in a few different directions:
- Hot doesn’t work as Meta’s homepage, but other types of communities like Hot and like it as a default homepage. Maybe we are just content and leave it at that.
- Hot doesn’t work as a default homepage anywhere, but folks like it as one of their available homepage sorting option for certain use cases (e.g., catching up after long absences from the community). Maybe we leave it at that, maybe we decide to figure out how to make it more useful as a homepage.
- Hot doesn’t work as a default homepage or as an available homepage sorting option anywhere. Okay, we need to make some significant changes and run further experiments to see how we can fix that.