Recommended posts feature

[axelvyrn]

Describe the problem you're trying to solve

As an active user of Stacker.news, I would love to see a "For You" section added to the header navigation.

I mean, it can be anywhere, maybe after the top filter.
This feature would significantly improve content discovery and user engagement by showing personalized recommendations that dynamically curates posts based on:

Keywords in posts I've:

• Bookmarked
• Zapped
• Stackers I’m subscribed to

Describe the solution you'd like

a page in components/for-you.js with this code and adding the link to the header should fix this:

import { Select } from './form'
import { useRouter } from 'next/router'

const FILTERS = [
  { value: 'subscribed', label: 'Subscribed Users' },
  { value: 'bookmarked', label: 'Bookmarked' },
  { value: 'territories', label: 'Territories' }
]

export default function ForYouHeader({ sub }) {
  const router = useRouter()
  const prefix = sub ? `/~${sub.name}` : ''
  const filter = router.query.filter || 'subscribed'

  return (
    <div className='flex-wrap'>
      <div className='text-muted fw-bold my-1 d-flex justify-content-start align-items-center'>
        <Select
          groupClassName='mb-2'
          className='w-auto'
          name='filter'
          size='sm'
          value={filter}
          items={FILTERS}
          noForm
          onChange={(_, e) =>
            router.push(prefix + (e.target.value === 'subscribed'
              ? '/for-you'
              : `/for-you?filter=${e.target.value}`))
          }
        />
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some alternative changes:

• Store keyword embeddings (e.g., via OpenAI or HuggingFace) and use cosine similarity.
• Add an option for users to tweak the algorithm.
• Run personalized feed generation in background with PostgreSQL job queue and cache in Redis.

Additional context

Add a "Why am I seeing this?" tooltip next to each post (e.g., “Similar to your zapped post on Nostr”).

Example usage: I often zap or bookmark posts about Politics, Lightning privacy tools, and information security. A "For You" section would show similar content from both trending and obscure corners of SN, without me having to hunt manually.

[axelvyrn]

So, uh, is this to be put to a for/against motion?

[huumn]

This means it's worth discussing, but is not clear how it fits in the context of our other plans yet.

[axelvyrn]

oh ok, btw I have a question. Can people like me, who are not part of the SN team, make a PR to an issue if they know the solution?

[huumn]

Yes, as stated in the readme. Based on your submissions so far, I recommend submitting the issue first and making sure we want it worked on.

[axelvyrn]

Oh, then shall this be considered an open issue to submit a PR for? #2198

[huumn]

yes