Trending is currently broken and isn't working as intended, the web team thought it would sort itself out in like a week after the last update, apparently they were too optimistic and they are presumably aware of this and are presumably going to fix it the next time a site update rolls around. ...Hopefully. It's a pretty important part of how the new site works, and I know I've had ideas for threads but I didn't want to invest time into writing them because without Trending, there's nothing stopping them from getting swept off the front page by spam.