So that is every host’s decision? We still have it. I was talking about it just an hour ago, I did not ever use it but found it.

Every admin is free to change the code, it’s free and open source software after all. @Gargron has been experimenting with features on mastodon.social from time to time, but this one is confusing and doesn’t make much sense.. We lost a useful feature and (at least when browsing on desktop) all we got in exchange is a second search button.

It *is* confusing. Maybe there are some statistic saying that the #Explore tab isn’t used that much?

I think that’s unlikely, I think the Explore tab really helps with discoverability (from the Hashtags page, to the News page). Maybe it’s just a bug, or a test of something that’s not quite ready yet.. 🙃
@Gargron

Possible; Eugen seems to be always one or two steps ahead — mastodon.social and mastodon.online were updated to 4.0 when it was still in alpha, if I remember correctly. Quite the move for such large instances.

Did you turn off trends in your preferences?