👍 Totally on board

Switch entry page from /trending to /promoted

I don't think I'm telling tales out of school if I mention that the /trending page is painful to look at. IMO, this is definitely Steemit not putting its best foot forward. If we change the front page to be /promoted, that leads back to the visibility as a service theme for token burning. Hopefully, it would be more pleasant to look at than the current trending page, and it would also provide additional utility for the SBD token (which retires debt in terms of STEEM tokens).

Along with your examples, I would also love to see communities start using post promotion to showcase their best content - like I used to do with STEM Saturday until I ran into time constraints and our community's posting volume slowed down. When I was running that initiative, I never fully understood why some of the bigger communities never challenged me for the top of the page, but I'm sure that part of it was because no one lands on /promoted without seeking it out. Making it the landing page would definitely make it more valuable as a piece of screen real estate.