How our Popular Feed Puts Photos — Not Manipulation — First
People come to Exposera to share and discover photography that moves them. Our Popular feed exists to highlight the photos our community is enjoying right now, but it’s built around a principle that runs counter to most large-scale social platforms: surface great work without playing attention-economy games.
This sounds simple, but it isn’t. Ranking systems are always value systems. The design of a feed determines which voices are elevated and which are buried. It defines what “success” looks like, and, in subtle ways, it shapes how people create. We designed our Popular feed with that awareness in mind: not as a mechanism to maximize engagement, but as a reflection of what a healthy photography community should look like when discovery is guided by appreciation instead of addiction.