Make your social network alienate new users even further, what could possibly go wrong.

"Recent" should still be accessible in the dropdown on the Shots page. It is for me at least.

I use that feature all the time when I'm looking for inspiration, plus it's a basic filter option for any site.

I agree with your thoughts. I've found it kind of difficult to get views on my studio's work and that's unfortunate. Look at the popular work and it's all by the same few places, and it's all spec work or fake mockups that use bright color and trends.

Dribbble could be such a great platform to garner feedback on design work but it falls quite short IMO.

Looks like they added it back! And they made it even better than before.

Time to build a 'new' dribbble from the ground up. One that isan't profit focused, but focused on sharing & curating design inspiration. I thought the addition of the 'TINY' team would be a benefit for Dribbble, but sadly it has not been.

Users have been complaining about how difficult it is to discover new and interesting content and designers... clearly those complaints are not being heard.

I love dribbble, but this move is so obviously not what the community has been asking for. Everyday the popular page is spammed with the same users and content. Hiding filters or making them less discoverable is a move in the wrong direction.

I'd love to hear the thinking behind this from the team.

Whoever is behind Dribbble these days is killing the platform. I understand wanting to monetize it, and by all means they should, but the intro of Scout in essence killed all designers sources of leads. I've talked to a ton of designers who this has happened to and they all echo similar things.

I realize this is a bit off topic, just needed to vent :)

if there's one thing dribbble loves, it's killing discoverability. the "scout" roll-out caused widespread backlash from top-tier users, i guess they're trying to make things up to them.

Only a matter of time before you can pay an extra $15 m/ to "Increase Discoverability" of your shots / profile.

I honestly see dribbble turning into the LinkedIn for designers. Lots of upsells and pro features to make finding jobs easier... but you'll have to pay.

More and more dribbble confirms its push to be a popularity contest. That's a shame.

I noticed that too, and it's annoying having to go through another click to get to the Recent work. Dribbble has always been supporting popular users more and this does nothing more but to do better by them.

Popular work isn't necessarily the best, and it's usually made up of trendy, seen before work, so I like to go to Recent work and maybe get a shot at actually interacting with those that posted.

Might be time for Dribbble to get a competitor.

I miss having the playoffs readily available! I was able to find where they were initially but I bet they will get less involvement now. Rebounds are fun and a great way to get the community together . Also the emphasis on "popular" and "trending" is a bit of a dangerous mindset

Social Media usually does this when they start to "show you content based on your interest", aka ads. Get ready for ads in the feed! It's gonna be hard for them because designers, creative types are sooooo unpredictable, especially for ad companies.

PRESS L TO SHOW SOME LOOOOOOOVE also follow me on all social media because attention is the new money an I NEED IT.

omg is that a new trend? abstract shapes of humans in illustration let me DO THAT FOR EVERYTHING.

Maybe they should have a "Talented Dribbbler" section that rotates once a day which only showcases profiles with less than 100 followers or something?

I say this respectfully to the community at Dribbble: the majority of users browsing that site are going there looking for something to wow and inspire them. Popularity seems like a pretty solid metric for that. The newly focused dropdown menus from the top navigation are way simpler, and much more understandable to me. I like that I have more options for getting a wave of neat–looking UI thrown at my eyeballs.

The removal of the filter is a tough call, but I think the focus on popularity is probably more... honest? Any designer hoping to gain exposure would have to network within Dribbble directly or promote them (and therefore Dribbble by association) directly via other channels.

Interesting. Can't say that I have ever used a filter on Dribbble though. I have built an awesome collection that I am following, so I just look at my new posts in "Following". If I want something else, I will search.

I mean you would have to assume they looked at their site analytics and realized that most people don't use that view? But I am not sure what they are trying to accomplish by removing it.

Just gonna revive this thread real quick hah. They got rid of it again!! I think they should add reddit style pages like "new" "hot" "popular" and "rising". Would help so much for exposure

Going to https://dribbble.com/shots?sort=recent still works

Why doesn't Dribbble allow proper filtering of search results yet? Only offering by 'popularity' and by 'recency' isn't nearly enough. You get a tonne of 2012 style visual design with the former, and mostly trash with the latter.

I'd love to be able to search for a term, and then look at the popular shots within a given timeframe.

I see it. I'm just confused... I was opposed to the addition of "Trending designers" for various reasons but I could see Dribbble's point of promoting active and less followed people. But isn't this just contradicting the matter a lot?

Perhaps this is an A/B test? Maybe I'm missing something here but when I go to dribbble.com I see "popular" as the default sorting method but "recent" is a filter option. The query string in the address bar shows "/shots?sort=recent". You can also filter by most views and most comments. Sure, "popular" is the default but maybe they found out that this is what their users were looking for the most?

I don't think this is much of an issue, debut shots always have high engagement.