Help us redesign the Stack Overflow homepage [closed]

Question

The homepage for all Stack Exchange sites is intentionally simple: it's a list of the last (n) questions by activity date.

Activity date means new questions, or questions with new answers or new edits.

This has worked reasonably well for the last two years, but it is breaking down on Stack Overflow due to the sheer volume of questions per day. Right now we get about 2,000 questions per day -- more than one new question per minute.

Roughly a year ago I doubled the default number of questions on the homepage from 48 to 96. This was no longer sufficient. Now we attempt to display a thirty minute span on the homepage -- up to a maximum of 192 questions. At peak times this is not enough, either.

In the face of massive incoming question volume, the Stack Overflow homepage needs to change:

• If you are an avid user, we don't expect you to use the homepage. You should be browsing by tag or tag combinations that interest you. However, users don't seem to discover browsing by tag very easily, even though we have literally hundreds of tag links on the home page. We need a better way to drive users off the generic all-you-can-eat-on-any-topic homepage towards their tags of interest.

• We need a way to aggregate questions by tag on the homepage, without sacrificing the core "every question gets featured on the homepage for a little while" mechanic.

• The homepage should still be, fundamentally, a list of questions that reflect what the site is about. New users who stumble upon the site for the first time should see "ah, so this is what this website is all about". It should be obvious.

How would you propose redesigning the Stack Overflow homepage to meet these needs? Please provide mockup screenshots if possible.

(Any change would, of course, be specific to the Stack Overflow homepage only; none of the other network homepages would change. Stack Overflow the only site that has anything even close to this volume of questions.)

Answer 1

My suggestion: weight the questions for logged-in users based on per-tag rep. Meaning that the more rep a user has earned on answers for a tag, the more weight a question with that tag gets. So new users would see everything. But as they start providing good answers to questions, they'll start being shown more questions on the same topics. The user is effectively funneled to the types of questions the community has judged him/her to be good at answering. This has two benefits: 1) more good answers in the system; and 2) a better experience for the user.

This is similar to radp's answer, Paul McMillan answer, and radp's other answer, except they are all suggesting using the interesting/ignored tags. I would suggest to factor those in, but still factor in what the user is actually earning rep on. Maybe the user has marked [java] as a favorite, but hasn't marked [swing] as a favorite even though they are earning a lot of rep on [swing] questions.

A formula for this would be something like this:

ComputeQuestionWeight(question, user) {
  float weight = AGE_CONSTANT/max(1,question.age);
  //Note- reciprocal function (above) may give far too much weight to
  //brand-new questions. Maybe look into equations of the form 1/(1+e^x),
  //where you would shift the graph to the right and stretch it out as
  //much as desired.

  foreach(tag in question.tags) {
    if(user.interestingTags.contains(tag))
      weight += INTERESTING_BONUS;
    if(user.ignoredTags.contains(tag))
      weight -= IGNORED_PENALTY;

    weight += TAG_CONSTANT * user.repEarnedInTag(tag);
    //or maybe: TAG_CONSTANT * log(user.repEarnedInTag(tag));
  }
  return weight;
}

You'd obviously have to determine the best values for the constants. As to whether or not this is feasible: I think if you denormalized rep earned per tag per user, and don't update it constantly, it could be do-able. But then, I've never managed a site as busy as SO. And rather than doing it all in the database query, you could select, say, the 1000(?) most-recent questions, or all questions from the last 4(?) hours, and perform the scoring algorithm on those questions in C# code, and only show the top 96 highest-scoring questions.

Answer 2

I'd like to see questions with tags I follow float to the top.

I'd like to see you guys man up and filter my ignored tags at the database level.

Answer 3

You could add a new set of tabs underneath the Active tab.

New Tab

This would be actual new questions not questions that have been edited or answered. Nice new and shiny questions with zero answers.

Updated Tab

This would be all the other questions - recently edited or recently answered.

Your Tags

This tab would be all questions that contain your "Interested" tags that have been recently asked or updated.

You could also add the ability to switch between "Interested" and "Ignored" views?

Your searches

This section would be a sort of history of recent searches that you have made. You click the recent search term and it refreshes the question list. You should also be able to save searches in here so if I regularly search for:

answers:0 apples oranges

I can mark this to be saved forever until I remove it.

• Recent Searches

• Saved Searches

Oh and I'd quite like it to remember where you were or at least the option to save a particular tab as your "home". So one User may want to always land on Active > Your Tags where as another user may always want to land on Active > Your Searches

UPDATE

As pointed out in the comments; tab menu within a tab menu may not be the best idea. Another option would be to remove the "active" tab item and add the new set of tab items to the existing tab menu.

This question asked today (1st Nov 2010) highlights the kind of the thing I was implying a good search tab could provide. I am not saying that SO should compete with Google in terms of search but I think that searching within the site could be enhanced. Especially with some of the Ninja Search terms.

Answer 4

I'm an avid user and I simply don't use the homepage.
With many awesome Notifier available built with the Stack Exchange API, the power user could live happily even without browsing by tags, just visiting the site straight to a question.

My 0.02 cents:
you should add motion to the homepage like Google updates does; new users should see the flood of questions coming real-time and the first three words of the shocked\impressed visitors ( :-O ) should be : OMG followed by this is the programmers mecca, the Shangri-la I was searching for.

Just imagine an hypnotized potential user drooling in front of a never ending rolling set of questions.

Answer 5

I don't really think the design itself needs to change that much. I would just add a bit more structure to it to make it easier to find the interesting stuff. On the top of my wish-list:

1. I would like to be able to separate or filter out questions asked by low-rep members with a lot of questions and a low acceptance rate (or questions with a lot of down-votes) from questions asked by people who have been on the site for longer (basically higher-rep members). These questions add a lot of noise, and being able to filter them out would definitely make it easier to find the really good and useful questions.

2. The tags we have now could easily be grouped into bigger categories, (C#, .NET, WCF could be grouped together as Microsoft Technology, while Ruby on Rails, GWT, JavaScript and Django could be grouped into Web Programming). There is no reason why a tag couldn't be in multiple categories, of course, but if it is, then the question should appear in both. The view on the front page could then be the 15 most recent questions, and then all the categories and a number indicating how many questions there are in each category. Making it visually obvious where a question goes when being filtered into a category (some sort of visual "slurp" as the question falls into the right bucket) will help users understand where to go to see more questions like it.

3. I would like to be able to filter on unanswered questions were no answer has been given. Very often the "unanswered" actually have perfectly good answers in them, except that the question-poster has neglected to mark any of them as answered. This makes it harder to find the actual people in need, I think.

4. More fine-grained tags. If I'm interested in algorithms written in Java, I add the tags algorithm and java. Boom, almost every question in the list gets highlighted. It would be great if it were possible to combine two tags and say "I'm only interested in questions tagged with BOTH java and algorithm".

5. Put any questions that have been marked as in need of moderator attention in a separate view, so that they don't clutter up the main view. Once a moderator has looked at them, plop them back on the top of the stack again for all people to see.

This is very exciting, I can't wait to see what you guys will come up with!

Answer 6

Just one simple change: Clickable Interesting Tags to browse by all questions tagged with at least one of the user's chosen tags.

Answer 7

Instead of sorting questions by their activity, sort questions by their adjusted activity.

• A question's freshness gets a x% freshness penalty per ignored tag.
• A question's freshness gets a y% freshness boost per interesting tag.

Comparison

Before → After

See it in action

Copy this (licensed GPLv3 I guess?) and paste it in your javascript console. Here's the core of it:

function get_adjusted_freshness(question_summary){
  var tags = _get_tags(question_summary);
  var good_tags = tags.intersect(interesting_tags).length;
  var bad_tags = tags.intersect(ignored_tags).length;
  var last_activity = new Date($(question_summary)
                               .find(".started .relativetime")
                               .attr("title")).getTime();

  var freshness = last_activity - now;
  freshness /= Math.pow(bonus, good_tags);
  freshness *= Math.pow(penalty, bad_tags);
  return freshness;
}

I've made it easier to muck with the bumping. The final three lines of the file should make things clear :)

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Okay, so why would you do it that way to begin with?

1. Consistency with other SE sites. As Jeff stated, the homepage must remain still a list of questions and interest towards tags should still be expressed via the interesting tags form.
2. Manages information overload. The problem according to Jeff is that there are too many questions coming in too fast. This doesn't scale because questions only are sorted by what I called their raw freshness: time since last activity (ask, answer, question edit, answer edit).
   This means we want to bump questions one can answer at the expense of questions one cannot -- SO can't just guess what you're good at, so it makes sense to piggyback on ignored and interesting tags. Turns out .25 is a large bonus and .20 is a really large malus, but they get the work done. Finetune at will.
3. Doesn't hide anything. Hiding questions is bad. We need to give avid users (= users with rep) a chance to see all questions at least once, so they can moderate those questions. If everybody only looked at their own tags, moderation would suffer.
   There's no bias against closed questions either, and it's intentional: they're invaluable for their instructional value. If anything, questions with more than 1k views should be penalized.
4. Can run completely client side. No databate hits required, although my current implementation screams for memoization and does freeze the browser for that tenth of second. Optimization is left to the reader.

The only thing that really lacks now is making the Interesting tags area more prominent. Hardly possible! Maybe show it for anonymous users also. After all, all cosmetic changes happen client side (and my modification respects that).

Answer 8

As a regular user of the site, when I come to the home page I'm generally doing one of two things:

1) Searching for the answer to a question

2) Looking for questions to answer

I think the home page should be focused on those two activities (at least for a logged-on regular user of the site). That means 2 things to me:

1) Make an effort to connect me with unanswered questions that I have the skills and/or knowledge to answer. This might mean showing me questions with tags that I've flagged as favorites. Or the system might deduce my areas of specialty by questions I've answered before (especially upvoted answers). Either way, playing matchmaker to my questions would be good both for me (to build rep) and the question-askers.

2) Make the searching interface more front-and-center and powerful. It irks me literally every time I use the site that I have to use the special "+" character to do "and" searches, contrary to every other search engine I use. Also, the "instant" style search on the question asking page could be very helpful as a primary search UI.

Answer 9

In the face of massive incoming question volume, the Stack Overflow homepage needs to change

Many of the "redesign" suggestions given are fine suggestions, but I don't think that the homepage needs to be changed at all.

The amount of activity on the homepage, is the best thing about SO. The fact that when I refresh the page, everything changes makes the refresh button fun and addictive. Being on SO exposes me to a happening and vibrant community and a repository of information that is growing and evolving right before my eyes.

As you look to redesign, I don't think mitigating the dynamism of the homepage should be a goal.

Answer 10

I'm a new user. I have been registered for a while, but for some reason, I never got to participate actively (I do spend a lot of time on other forums and discussion boards).

I guess the reason why is because I never really understood fully the ranking system and the whole "privileges" system (I just found out I got a message in my inbox explaining it). Tag browsing is another thing I had no idea existed.

You say, "If you are an avid user, we don't expect you to use the homepage". Then maybe make the homepage more geared towards new users, with better explanations, a "where to start" section, basically anything that would make them active and productive rapidly.

I'm no designer, so I'm sorry I'm not attaching any screenshots.

Answer 11

A few quick options, off the top of my head.

First, remember that a lot of the problems are because of "real, logged in" users. For the new users, the important point is to make sure the home page makes the purpose of the site clear.

This is important to remember, since the homepage can look very different for a new user and for a logged-in user.

Second, I'm a long-time SO user, and honestly I don't know how to browse by multiple tags. I tried browsing by tags once (a long time ago), couldn't find a way to browse by more than one tag, and gave up. If it's changed since then, I have no idea.

OK, some changes that can be made:

1. Give logged-in users a list of tags they can filter their homepage by. This should be on the homepage, right at the top, and just be a quick text-box people can add/remove filters from.
2. Another idea - a button at the top of the homepage, again for logged-in users, letter them filter by the tags they mark as interesting. This is probably a better solution to avoid duplication - just give me a big-ass button at the top of the homepage that turns on/off the filter-by-my-interesting-tags options.
3. Another simple solution is to randomally allocate questions to different users. For example, choose 100 new questions that you show to half the people browsing the site, and another 100 questions to show a different collection of people. Obviously, these can be shuffle, but this both ensures that questions are put in front of plenty of people, but also that individual people will only see so many questions. This isn't optimal, but it's a quick and easy fix.
4. A fourth option - make the browse-by-tag options more obvious. Like I said earlier, I don't know that they exist, so teach me! I'm sure a site-wide message can go a long way towards educating more users.

Answer 12

I'm envisioning the front page being ordered by recent activity on tags. Each tag having a short list of recently questions under it (possibly with an active element to open a longer such list).

• You still get the every question appears on the front page effect, because every question bumps all it's tags.

• This empowers you to make tag-based browsing discoverable, because the tags are given prominent display (and you can add a "click the tag" message if needed).

• Expandable lists allows you to put a lot of questions "on" the front page without having the default layout be 10 screens long.

• There are no user-specific queries involved: it's still a single priority queue kept up to date as questions, answers and edits come in.

Answer 13

Why not an iGoogle approach? I would love to have a customizable home page with drag and drop.

Answer 14

You might give users certain presets depending on how they arrive at Stack Overflow. Say you arrive on Stack Overflow from Google on a SQL+SQL-Server topic, you set their preferred tags to SQL or SQL-Server. So they'd arrive in their tagged subcommunity, instead of the whole of SO.

When they next arrive from Google with a Java question, you'd add Java to their favorite tags, giving Java or SQL or SQL-Server. Same thing if they ask or answer a Java question. Basically expanding your interest zone makes you a member of new tag communities.

This would have to be completely transparent to a new users. I don't think I picked up on the tag concept during my first half year at Stack Overflow, it's really quite complex.

Answer 15

I would like to see my own open, unanswered questions - essentially the "user:me hasaccepted:0 wiki:0 closed:0" search query.

Under that, a list of recent reactions - essentially the bottom part of /users/recent/91

Or allow me to create my own list of Tags which I should see on the Front Page.

Answer 16

Based purely on the statement:

We need a way to aggregate questions by tag on the homepage, without sacrificing the core "every question gets featured on the homepage for a little while" mechanic

I understand that the point of this is to give every question on the site a little bit of "homepage time", to help give every question a good chance of being seen by someone capable of answering it (even if it is incorrectly tagged).

Give this, I propose that the homepage be a list of the newest questions, rather than the active questions.

I've come to this conclusion based on the realisation that:

• Having a question featured at the end of the home page is essentially the same as the question not appearing at all (it's a long page, not many people will scroll down the entire list).
• Based on the above statement you can't weight the ordering by tag, because this makes it more likely that questions with low activity tags or questions that are badly tagged won't be seen.
• New users won't have selected any favourite / ignored tags anyway.

Pros

• The list of new questions moves far slower than the list of active questions
• Each question is new only once meaning that all questions are equal as far as the homepage is concerned (high activity questions are less likely to bump low activity questions)
• Without surveying a representative sample of the Stack Overlfow community, it is the view that I use the most.

Cons

• This means that the majority of the questions displayed on the homepage will have low views and no answers (this might be seen to compromise the "a list of questions that reflect what the site is about" principle, and new users might see this as a bad sign)
• Old questions that have just been updated get less love.

Answer 17

IMO, Stack Overflow is used for two things and the redesign needs to focus on reducing friction in both of those processes: (1) finding appropriate answers and (2) finding appropriate questions. Let me elaborate:

Finding Answers

This is the user who is trying to find some kind of information or solve a problem. The vast majority of these users probably come from Google and it seems like you've got SEO covered pretty well. Few of these users would end up on the homepage, but for those who do, a more powerful, prominent and intuitive search is key:

• Search box front and center: right now, your "menu" (questions, tags, users badges, etc) is taking valuable real estate. Put a search box here instead.
• Search facets in the sidebar: replace the "recent tags" section with a set of facets (that is, checkboxes) that do the same thing - that is, clicking the "Java" and "C++" checkboxes filters the results on the page to just those tags. Next, take the "tabs" you have at the top of the page ("active", "featured", "hot", etc.) and turn those into facets. Finally, on the Search Options page, I see that there are a number of other search options, but requiring these to be entered as keywords in a search query is not intuitive or discoverable for the average user. Instead, turn these into facets on the sidebar as well. This turns your sidebar into a single, consolidated place for filtering the list of questions down to the exact set you want. It's a very powerful technique that works well on kayak.com, newegg.com, amazon.com, linkedin.com, Google Images and so on.
• Make search and filtering "instant": as soon as you start entering search terms into your centrally located search box, or as soon as you click the new facets in the sidebar, the page should update (via Ajax) to show the new results.

Finding Questions

These are the registered users who are looking for questions to answer or interesting discussions to learn from. The exact same search tools mentioned above would be immensely useful here. However, if the user has taken the time to register and participate on the site, you should know enough about them to intelligently filter the homepage questions to a list most likely to be appropriate for that user. That is, once I've built up a set of tags on my profile that accurately reflects my interest, simply filter the homepage using these exact tags. Obviously, getting the right tags is essential, so here are a few things that help:

• Let me pick my tags: I do like that tags get associated with my profile based on questions I've asked and answered, but why not let me pick a bunch of tags I'm interested in? Turn the "tags" page into a mind map style UI where I can specify tags I like, see others they are related to, and add all the ones I'm interested in to my profile.
• Import resumes and LinkedIn profiles: allow users to upload their resume (useful information for you guys/gals anyway) and allow "log in with LinkedIn" (in addition to the social networks you already support) so that you can pull down the user's CV. You can match the CV against your database of tags and automatically guess the ones the user is likely to be interested in.

Edit: Jeff Atwood brought up a good point that it would be too limiting to only show users the tags they are interested in. Therefore, I'd add to the above that a Pandora-style model may be applicable, where tags you select plus similar tags are shown on the homepage. Based on users explicitly rating questions as "relevant" (and/or implicitly expressing this info by clicking or not clicking on the question), you have a feedback loop that lets you customize what's on the homepage even more.

Answer 18

Please don't mess with the start page, some of us visit it everyday just to kill a bit of time browsing.

Just make it easier to filter out questions we definitely have no interest in.

Answer 19

Slightly off-topic, I would like to see a list of questions with 0 responses. Currently, if you click the "Questions" tab, you see a list of all questions. I'd like to filter out all the questions that have been answered (or at least have one posted response).

Answer 20

While answering this question on the UI site I thought that a "Random Question" button might be a fun, if not useful addition to the site.

This would pick a question that was either truly unanswered or had no upvoted answer, probably using the user's interesting tags as a guide. I was all set to post it as a question when I discovered that it had already been asked - here.

It might also have an albeit slight impact on the unanswered question problem

Answer 21

Add the ability to filter out questions that haven't changed (or changed much) since you last marked it as read.

Joerg Mittag says that he aims to read every question tagged ruby, and I pretty much aim to do the same (apart from Rails ones). Being able to mark questions as read would make that easier for me.

A nice addition to marking a question as read would be being able to see what answers or edits have been made since you marked it as read, but that’d just be icing on the cake.

Answer 22

Is this a fundamental pivot with regard to the intent of the homepage, then? The premise of the question makes perfect sense as SO starts to grow, but given the context of "Don't Make Me Think," the concept of perpetually growing the list of Top Questions seems to run counter to this. While the badges make SO have a 'game' sort of feel, and I personally like the Top Questions being not filtered for the fact that, in pursuit of points, I'll walk out of my comfort zone, and do some research on a new/unanswered question that's not in my tag-interest.

I agree with Edan, a priority in my mind would be to move the tags to more prominence for the homepage; top tags for logged-in users, top n tags across the board for anonymous users. Additionally, I'd lower the number of questions displayed on the homepage, at least for logged-in users (assuming you're still displaying questions that are the top across the entire system for them), so as to guide people to the tags, rather than give them a buffet of questions, letting them refresh until they see something they like.

Answer 23

I think most people here would agree that the majority of users get to the site and either:

1. Ask a question
2. Search for an answer
3. Search for a question to answer.

I think the home page, with that in mind, should be more like Google. Keep it simple and let people find what they want faster. Make it just a search bar with a login somewhere and maybe a Ask a Question somewhere also small. Having a large search box to search for an answer in your massive database of Q&As would:

1. Push people to search before asking a question (reducing duplicate questions)
2. Help people find an answers even faster by not having to search for the search box
3. By having radio buttons for "Questions" and "Answers" you can help people find questions to answer as well as answers to questions that they have.
4. You could have a "Can't find your answer? Ask it here" on the results page and the search term would be put as the title of the "Ask a Question" page.
5. And quite possibly the most important, it's making your site more familiar for it's users. Everyone (well... 99%) uses Google, and making it a simple search will speed up the processing time it takes for a new user to find all the elements and make his/her first action. Currently they'd have to decide if they want to make an account, click the ask a question, look for questions on the home page, search for a question, etc. Make it familiar, and help out the new users.

Answer 24

First of all, I have approximately zero graphics skills, and so the mock-up below looks horrid. But I think it gets the ideas across. And those ideas are to feature the "Ask Question" button more prominently, provide a place to easily set up complex tag searches, feature the faq, and use ajax to fill a scrolling div or iframe with "live" questions as they come in. Not that I expect these to be live, but the script could go out and retrieve data for a batch of new questions once every 90 seconds (the last known cache duration for the front page) and insert from that collected batch more frequently. If there are too many to fit in the 90 second window, a judicious use of the rand function can ensure that the views are distributed evenly.

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Note that clicking a tag in this view should not jump directly to that tag, but rather "select" it in some way for use with the textbox and hyperlinks shown below.

Also note that I don't think you should ever show the same tag six times - the javascript tag was just the one I grabbed to put in my clipboard to paste to the image. I also forgot the search bar, the user details bar at the top, and the scroll bar on the live feed. All of those elements are still assumed in this layout.

Answer 25

After reading the other answers, I have a few thoughts...

1. Keep the design of the home page pretty much as it is.
2. The goal of the home page--from the point of view of the site--is to match question answerers up with questions.
3. The best way (IMO) to accomplish this goal is to sort the question list on the home page more intelligently. Many ideas have been presented on how to do this, but here are some that I favor:
   • First of all, don't filter the list. If the goal is to show XX minutes worth of questions, then continue to do this.
   • Positively weight (push higher in the list) questions that contain tags the user has marked as "interesting". (And perhaps add a bonus for questions with multiple matching tags, but I don't know if this really adds value.)
   • Negatively weight questions that contain tags the user has marked as "ignored".
   • Consider postively weighting questions that have been upvoted but have no upvoted answers (I say "consider" because I think these kind of tweaks may have negative side effects).
   • Continue to give significant weight to recency, and follow the same rules you do now for determining what constitutes recent activity.
4. Consider adding another tab for this particular view called "Interesting" and make it the default view. Hence, the sequence of tabs would become: interesting, active, featured, hot, week, month.

Why this particular strategy?

• It's relatively low impact and low risk.
• It doesn't involve any heavy GUI revisions.
• You can iteratively modify the weighting scheme based on whether a higher percentage of questions are in fact getting upvoted answers.
• It shouldn't upset users who like the home page the way it is (they could even click the "Active" tab to keep things exactly like they are now).

Answer 26

I'm of the opinion that "design by committee" is the single worst way to design & develop.

On a more serious note, I am a low-to-average user and only pass the SO site once or twice a week at most. I'd like the home page to remember my favourite tag mix. I'm interested in helping people with a particular question in my particular field (where I can have most impact and knowledge). Far too often I've been scrolling through page after page of C# questions to find one I can answer - this is not productive. What would be productive is a C#, Windows Forms, DirectX skillset mix as I decide on load.

I've probably opened myself to barrage of short, obtuse responses about how I'm not using the site properly, but surely that's the point of a re-design?

Answer 27

The questions that are on the front page are just too difficult for me to answer. I'm happy to ask and answer noob questions, but these questions are answered too quickly, and I'm left with no way of giving back to the community.

I'd like to see some way of categorising a question as too hard / too easy and to weight the questions shown according to the skill level of the asker.

Answer 28

I think adding filters to the page would be fantastic! My idea is would be to add a common and custom filter section. Something like this:

Answer 29

1. Hide closed questions which are voted less than 0 (and do not have answers). these are worthless.

2. Ask super-quick questions, almost like a bounty, but kind of the opposite as well. The question only lasts like a day, and the accepted answer gets slightly more reputation points than a standard question. These questions would be designed for quick one line answers, such as "What does programming-related-word mean?" The answer can be given in two lines or a link to another website. These don't appear on the homepage, but appear in a separate tab (the increase in accepted bounty gives answers the motivation to check this tab). This removes this type of question from the main list, keeps the quality of questions at the current standard, but also gives a quick and easy way to get small answers.

Answer 30

• For interesting tags, bump a question to the top after every answer and any edit (current behaviour)
• For non interesting tags and ignored tags' questions with a bounty, bump a question to the top after every answer and question edit (but not for answer edits).
• For ignored tags, never bump a question. Put it at the top as usual when it's asked and never bring it up again.
• Reduce the amount of questions on the homepage back to 48 to balance.

I acknowledge this is probably a nightmare to implement reasonably, so it's more food for thought than anything else.

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I tried running this change on a live snapshot of a page and all it did was casting ignored questions down the drain, without bringing up interesting questions. I'll make another proposal.