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@downey@floss.social#MastoAdmin folks who weren't around the #Fediverse and #Mastodon back in 2018 may not know (or those who were, may have forgotten) how unpopular trending tags were when the project leader forced it despite extensive criticism about creating abuse vectors and clawing back promises of creating an algorithm-free network.
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Indeed, they were removed (from the UI, but not the backend) for a while in June 2018.
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This temporary removal was likely in response to even further pushback from server admins, pleading with the dev team for an option to deactivate or at least hide the feature.
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As an aside, admins used to get emails every time a new tag started trending.
This server currently has 3,300,000 tags in the database.
Fortunately after a year of such nonsense, the emails could be stopped.
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A year later in August 2019, the trends API was back and (finally, and at least) a UI for admins to manage the tags.
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It took 5 years for admins to get any way to review hashtags other than by browsing the currently-trending list (which is truncated to only the then "hottest" tags). The only other way to practically search for a hashtag to manage it was to do manual queries on the database to get the tag's ID number.
The first pass at the UI still is quite limited in its functionality.
With 3.3 million hashtags, it's still quite difficult to near-impossible to look at data.
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Along the way, the project leader insisted on adding even more trending items for admins to manage (posts and links) despite ongoing pushback from the admin community.
Nevertheless, they came and the US for managing them is just as poor.
Perhaps someday improving the admin experience will get even a fraction of the attention as that of new features or scaling for mega-servers.
One can dream. #MastoAdmin
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@downey I like that they can be turned off. And that’s just as powerful as them not being there; but it’s also obvious that they go for the low hanging fruit and not the actual issues that Mastodon has had since its inception.
