I think most of us have seen it happen. A project is popular for a week or two. Then new projects come in and the first project quickly becomes buried, never to be seen again. It’s not that the project can’t gather support, it’s just that no one can even find the project to promote it.

This hidden zone also hinders unlicensed projects more than licensed projects. While licensed projects can find fan clubs around their license, unlicensed projects don’t always have the liberty to find large groups of people already organized around their project theme

I’m not sure what the best solution is and I’m completely open to any ideas.

One idea is to have sorting options to view projects between 0-1k, 1-2k, 2-3k, 3-4k, 4-5k, etc. Then users who would like to help out can find stuck projects to support. These projects may not draw as many supporters as projects on the front page but it wouldn’t be a complete halt in support like the black hole they experience now. The only downside is that the search options list would become longer.

Thank you for reading!