I don’t know if the algorithm has been tuned better, but I have totally missed big events until someone has directly mentioned it to me, because of mega threads. I suspect it may because the initial burst of community participation may happen in the first couple threads, and by the time a mod comes in and either uses an existing one as a mega thread, or starts a new thread, the participation has waned, so minor stories rise above.

I heard, by mouth, that Trump had been shot about an hour after it happened. It was no where on my front page, either “Active” or “Top Six Hours”. I had to go to the News community directly to find it.