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90% of shown blogs are by the same 3 GMs

The algorithm of the blogs is bad, please improve it.

It keeps only showing blogs by GM NoelStuder, FM CheckRaiseMate (offering coaching for 100$ per hour) and Avetik Chessmood (offering coaching for 300?!!?!?$ per hour WTF?!)

Now I don't have anything against people advertising their services and doing blog posts, but I want as a reader to see a variety of blogs, especially those of the lichess community and not be FORCED by lichess to read articles solely by clickbait experts. No matter how far I scroll I can only see blogs mainly by those 3 people and it annoys me - as a creator I also want to get a chance of someone seeing my articles aswell, where I put in hours and days of work - unlike them. The best articles I've read from others also always have been untitled. However even with 100 views and 10 likes on my blogs I don't get shown at the blog page.

Please do something about the Lichess algorithm. It's not like youtube, here there is not billions of blogs uploaded every minute, to me this is just a faulty algorithm and it won't make any sense for me to post any more educational blogs if they don't get shown to anybody anyway. You could have a tab for "newest blogs" at least or SOMETHING. I am really annoyed by this GM clickbait blogs, both as a reader and a creator.
There was one you didn't name.
NM Chess-Network.
And P.S., I don't think it's clickbait.
They just have lots to say.
And I agree with @oberschlumpf.
No way 90%. And you also put the dollar sign before the number, not after.
Your welcome.
@CheerUpChess-Youtube said in #1:
> Now I don't have anything against people advertising their services and doing blog posts...

Well actually, I do have something against that. Especially when it's pretty evident that some of these people are just trying to chum the waters to get you to pay that 100$ (or 300$!).

And nope, Nan, the one in particular that I'm thinking of has absolutely NOTHING to say (at least, not for free!)...as blatantly opportunistic an attempt to drum up business as I've seen around here.
@lucky_Nan said in #3:
And you also put the dollar sign before the number, not after.

First of all, it's a percentage sign. And also, you do put it after the number
I swear to God my page is full of them. Okay maybe it's 70% and not 90% - it's a saying to say "90%..." it's simply too much okay? They don't even create good articles. Why can't we limit the shown blog post per 1 per user at a time?! or let us scroll to other players?
Lichess staff do monitor what gets featured on the main page.

@CheerUpChess-Youtube said in #6:
> Why can't we limit the shown blog post per 1 per user at a time?!

Personally, I like this idea (showing a blog post prominently in the upper-right corner).
@Toadofsky said in #7:
> Personally, I like this idea (showing a blog post prominently in the upper-right corner).

What do you mean by upper right corner? Thanks for the reply btw. And what exactly do you mean by monitor?

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