Sorry, i don`t know if this is the correct community to share my thoughts, but I’m wondering if lemmy team does trending posts instead of communities.
As most of us know, trending widgets are to attract the attention to specific topics, and titles play a big role in this. i believe if lemmy team switches the trending communities in the sidebar to show trending topics the widget will paly bigger role to extend the reading time.
Share your thoughts if you agree or not.
I suppose the trending area could be user selectable- like it is for prefered page sorting. here’s the source for Lemmy-ui in case you can do the code yourself. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui