Please turn off “Trending in Christmas” or at least make the red less BRIGHT!

but here is more christmas!

on another thread tech seem surprised about this issue of trending, so perhaps it isn't intentional. In which case I apologise.

oh look, by the time I'd posted that it had refreshed.

I wouldn't like to accuse mn of deliberately manipulating things, so all I'll say is that it's jolly odd.

Trending.
Really? Is mumsnet so shallow that this what we are all thinking about tonight? I'd be sorely disappointed if this were true.

They're definitely pissing about with mixing the threads as last night when I posted previously, new Christmas threads were taking over the trending box every time I refreshed the page (every few seconds, just to check)

I typically use the trending box and refresh button on it to view threads, and have definitely browsed far less the past 24 hours as a result.

I still can't see this red box - thankfully! - but I have to ask @JustineMumsnet @MNHQ what the need for it is, given that everything in the usual trending box is about Christmas?

The top thread only has 26 posts

It's based on page views, not posts.

They've changed the algorithm to make the Trending threads mix (sometimes not very well) with threads from the Christmas board, to make it appear these are the most viewed site-wide.

I agree something has been changed. Right now all my trending posts are from the Christmas topic. The top thread only has 26 posts, and they're over several hours as the thread was started just before 2pm. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that these thread just happen to be in the Christmas topic...

@rrhuth

I'm pro-Christmas too, regular on the Christmas boards, and done much of my Christmas shopping.

My issue with this is that @JustineMumsnet is clearly manipulating threads for clicks. They've changed the algorithm to make the Trending threads mix (sometimes not very well) with threads from the Christmas board, to make it appear these are the most viewed site-wide. I'm going to guess they are looking for some sort of advertising or sponsorship deal (it wouldn't be Mumsnet otherwise would it? 😉) but manipulation of threads like this is proper dodgy and I hope any sponsor picks up on that. Mumsnet have big issues with transparency and its just a further demonstration that its all about the 💰💵

I'm very pro-Christmas and do read the Christmas board anyway but the extra Christmas box is getting to me more, a bit like when I worked in a shop and the bloody music started in November!

What SixQuid said.

I can't believe that these are the trendingest of trending threads today.

IT'S NOVEMBER!!!!

For the love of god, can you please remove Christmas threads from the normal trending box if you insist of keeping the annoying red box?

Every single thread in there has been about Christmas. What’s the point of having two trending threads boxes filled with the same things?

It’s awful. I had a thread about it on a thread in relationships that was incredibly sensitive.

I find Christmas really difficult. I try not to post on Christmas threads and I avoid the Christmas topic. Why do I have to have it on every single thread?

And it also removes all the click links I want to read. Normally I navigate from that box, I guess it will mean I spend less time on here.

What happened to the offer to tone down the 'festive' migraine inducing red and swap it with a green?

It's still bloody bright red!

I bet feminism gets more clicks than Christmas in November. But we have to hide that.

Ah, I wondered what was going on. All the threads I see in my "trending" box have been Christmas threads all day.

I keep shouting "IT'S NOVEMBER" at the laptop.

I thought everyone had gone collectively insane and were all posting on nothing but festive threads.

Seems it's Mumsnet messing with the algorithm though.

MNHQ are being very tone deaf

Oh is the app iphone only @Seeline ? I had no idea!