Easy solution: remove hot topics from the page and replace it with latest topics. That way people who visit the homepage will always see the newest threads.
I've said it from the beginning that the hot topic "algorithm" is stupid and absolute poison for the discussion and activity on the forum. It gives bigger threads the ability to kill new threads within minutes which is the reason why a lot of threads do not even gain more than 3 posts. It's mindbogglingly stupid.
I mean for god's sake, it's so bad that if you want to make sure that your thread even gets noticed you have to post in the North American hours to make sure it's not already buried once the majority of the people hits the forum. That's the main reason I blame that the forum is absolutely thread starved between 6am-4pm UTC.
All this wouldn't be an issue if we simply would give all posts a fair chance and not just the 10 most popular. We don't need the 10 biggest threads who people are visiting anyways to be on the front page all the time while smaller threads are being killed instantly!
With Latest topics all new threads would stay on the home page for at least half a day instead of just a few minutes.
REMOVE THE FUCKING HOT TOPICS ALREADY!
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