# Testing Boosts on Meta **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 **Category:** Announcements **Created:** [April 3, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 "2026-04-03T09:09:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 73
### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly) #### Post date: [April 9, 2026, 8:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/73 "2026-04-09T20:18:57Z")
> [@hellekin](#): > > I am starting to worry about the future of Discourse if precious developer time is spent on new features that would hinder conversation and pull the quality of discussion and thought downwards rather than helping the online discourse to enrich writers and readers. I think this worry is misplaced. As a company, we encourage a high degree of autonomy among teams and individuals. People have a fair bit of control over how they spend their own precious time. As humans in this planet it’s the most precious resource we have and it first belongs to each of us as individuals. Yes, we live in a world of complex social relationships where we trade our time for various things and cede a fair bit of control over it to the companies we work for, but we don’t do so entirely. As such, we have a lot of discussions like this one to feel out what has value to others, so we can independently make those assessments in alignment with what we discover. I agree this feature isn’t for everyone, and I had similar gut reactions to it that are being shared here. But I also see the fun people are having with it elsewhere and it feels like a net positive in certain communities. So I support the independent exploration that has gotten it to this point, even if it isn’t what I would personally stack rank at the top of a centralized product backlog. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835)._