# 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:** 75
### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster) #### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/75 "2026-04-10T06:11:36Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#): > > 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. My forum doesn’t use gifs, badges or gamification. My users are locked to TL1. Even reactions are really under used. All those are excluded because practically no one likes those — but as we all propably know fair share of forums and social media platforms are filled with topics never ending ”discussion” of gifs, and because I don’t allow such low level posts, those users don’t do anything else than reading. Well, gifs or boosts aren’t discussion and makes everything very restless\[1\]. But that is only my opinion and my active users are seeing things similar way. I understand why, propably quite many so called non-tech forums, would like to use boosts. And that’s fine as long two obvious things happens: - admin can disable boosts - boosts as a system doesn’t break things when disabled What I would like to see, in the role of user, would be ability to hide zero content, like gifs or boosts, totally. Anyway, boosts is not a zero-sum game. * * * 1. but are very good for ads… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835)._