Explain how 'trending' is determined about docs-api HOT 4 OPEN

Currently, the trending rank comes purely from how much traffic the api sees for a podcast. If it's being queried a lot, it's rank goes up. It's not very elegant. We are working with two groups currently that are going to start providing us actual curated ranking data that will make that rank better.

If AntennaPod wants to start handing back popularity/ranking data to us that would be wonderful. We can work with them to set up an API endpoint for them to submit that back to us.

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Nice! What do they provide? A ranking based on the number of subscribers? Do they report actual numbers; is it real time? Is it 'global' or country-level data?

I have those same questions! They are still building out their systems so we don’t even know yet. All we would really need is subscriber counts. Something like =n would be just fine.

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We are working with two groups currently that are going to start providing us actual curated ranking data that will make that rank better.

Nice! What do they provide? A ranking based on the number of subscribers? Do they report actual numbers; is it real time? Is it 'global' or country-level data?

So many questions. Might be a topic for one of the dev meetings.

If AntennaPod wants to start handing back popularity/ranking data to us that would be wonderful.

Agreed. Caveats: there's no central server so no aggregated data, but user-by-user. That has serious privacy implications. Would most certainly require a user opt-in, and one that's not scary and not annoying.

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(largely note to self) As a follow-up on this, here's some points of improvement for this end-point: AntennaPod/AntennaPod#5986

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