"New arrivals" feed

[ichorid]

Currently, Tribler "Home" screen does not show anything useful, triggering banner blindness instead. That's a shame because it is literally the first thing the user sees when starting Tribler.

One important element of every social network that could be put on the main screen is the new arrivals feed. It typically looks like an infinitely scrollable list of objects of different kinds, each object providing simple controls to manipulate them. In our case that would be:

• popular torrents received through Popularity Community;
• updates of subscribed channels (number of new torrents in the channel since the last visit);
• new channels discovered.

The corresponding GUI objects should include "instant satisfaction" controls to decide the fate of the shown object immediately (a la "swipe right"): subscription / look inside for channels; download / watch later for torrents.

In time the same feed can be used for collective editing notifications.

The crucial element of any news feed is the algorithm for filtering important things. It is especially non-trivial to decide what is more important between different classes of objects. One alternative is to use several feeds instead of one, though this overwhelms the user with decision.s

[qstokkink]

Maybe we should then remove the home screen and start on the discovered channels?

[ichorid]

Maybe we should then remove the home screen and start on the discovered channels?

That is one possibility, yes. I would still prefer something less overwhelming and more user-friendly and personalised. I guess we can remove the home screen and start from "Discovered" screen as the first step in that direction.

[ichorid]

Related to #6214

[devos50]

While a new home screen could be part of the new tag system, it's still too early to assign responsible people to this effort.