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How Discover works

Discover is the first feed on Home: recent posts ranked by a few plain rules, the same for everyone, with a line on each post saying why it is there. Latest and Following stay in time order, newest first.

What it uses

Only what anyone can already see on HeyNaija: replies, quotes, reposts and how many likes a post has. To that it adds who you follow and which communities you joined.

It never uses what you read or how long you look at a post, who liked something (that is not public here), how many followers anyone has, or payment. Nothing is recorded about what you read.

How posts are ranked

Discover looks at posts from the last 3 days. Replies are not listed on their own; they count toward the post they are under. Posts by people you blocked or muted are left out.
Every post starts with 1 point, so a new post can be seen before anyone has replied to it or liked it.
A post gets 2 points for each person, other than its author, who replied anywhere in its conversation or quoted it. Replying many times still counts as one person.
It gets 1 point for each like and 1 point for each repost.
It gets 3 more points for each person you follow who replied, quoted or reposted it, 2 points if you follow its author, and 1 point if it is in a community you joined.
A post loses ground as it ages: its score is its points divided by (hours since it was posted + 2) to the power 1.5. A post from 2 hours ago that 3 people replied to and 4 liked has 11 points and scores 1.38. The same post a day later scores 0.074.
One person cannot fill Discover: each author's second post scores half as much, their third a quarter, and so on.
A post that 2 or more members have reported, or that our check for child abuse images flagged, waits out of Discover until a moderator decides. It stays in Latest and everywhere else.
Discover ends after 100 posts. Latest has everything, newest first.
Your own posts are not ranked. Those from the last hour are shown above everything else, newest first, so you see what you just posted.
Discover is ranked as of the moment you open it, so nothing moves while you read. Open it again to see it afresh.
If you are not signed in, only the points that are the same for everyone count, and the ranking is worked out once a minute for every visitor.
Home opens on Discover. If you choose another tab, Home opens on that one next time; the choice is kept in your browser.

Why each post is there

Each post in Discover says the first of these that is true:

You posted it in the last hour: “Your post”.
Someone you follow replied, quoted it or reposted it: “@ade replied”.
You follow its author: “You follow @ade”.
It is in a community you joined: “From Lagos, which you joined”.
People are taking part in it: “Active on HeyNaija”.
Otherwise it is new, and has only its starting point: “New on HeyNaija”.

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