Position Comparison of Statistical Data

The view count is surely the most important statistic, as all photos will have views before they acquire faves or comments, and some will have no faves or comments at all.

Putting the view count to the far right creates an unsightly gap on unfaved photos, whilst leaving the statistic completely detached on portrait-sized images, so that it appears to belong to the next photo.

• The expansion in 2013 or 2014 of "Explore/What's hot" from nine to eighteen pages has not proved to be successful, as the added pages are not used by most users to discover new members or contributions, as is proven every day.

• The required minimum number of favorites was reduced from ten to four at that time, and one of the rules of the group "Ipernity Frontpage & What's Hot" was adapted accordingly.

• The required minimum number of comments was completely removed. This may have been due to repeated manipulations, which in turn affected the number of visitors.

• However, visitor numbers were never relevant for images on "Explore/What's hot", otherwise they would have been part of the algorithm. And there are good reasons for this, as indicated above.

Considering the concern for the reputation of the web designers and the ima team, I would therefore kindly ask you to consider a return to the algorithm of that time and reduce "Explore/What's hot" to nine pages again. So instead of tinkering with symptoms, the causes of several "unsightliness" could be eliminated.
In light of this request or suggestion, and for reasons of responsible use of the energy of all of us, I would like to put aside for the time being a description of my work flow as admin of the group " Ipernity Frontpage & What's Hot" and rely at least on the understanding of the ima team.

It is of little help to unravel the whole package and thus open up a new major construction site. Especially since we still do not know where the algorithm is actually hidden. Rob's assumption is even that it doesn't really exist as an isolated formula, but that the order of the posts in "What's hot" is determined by a multitude of scattered conditions at different places in the program.

Therefore, even if we wanted to, we could not go back to an "algorithm of that time". There is no documentation anywhere where you can read what this one was like. Obviously, the one we live with today is the result of many undocumented tinkering by several programmers in different places. To search for them is hopeless.

Surely we have to really cleanly recreate the general topic in the context of reprogramming. But please don't overwhelm us with it now.

At the moment it is only about the visual harmonization of the layout.