| You weren't kidding about being dialed in on this space! > Are you not using React Native? Not even! Our iOS app just uses WKWebViews for the main UI so yes it would be pretty trivial to do the same thing on Android. Only excuse is that it's in our backlog with 100 other things that we also really want to build. > If you're taking this metadata directly from the articles I'm skeptical about the accuracy/completeness. Haha yes, it's an absolute clusterfuck that I'm currently trying to clean up enough to make useful. The descriptions are usually actually pretty solid, but there is so much noise in the tags/topics. > This is something, but still high-quality articles with clickbait titles will outcompete high-quality articles without clickbait titles. Yes, yes, yes! I think providing more context in the way of the description could help to cut down on this, but you're very right that there is no easy or complete fix (at least not that I can imagine!). Something else to think about would be looking at the ratio of clicks to completions instead of just the sum of completions alone. That way in your example the 10x likelihood of a click could be cancelled out by the low 0.25x completion rate. |
Good idea. In addition to better metadata for boring titles, penalizing articles which have a low completion rate would probably help
Good luck! I'll keep an eye on the progress