I think another big issue that contributes to this is discoverability. I believe it can be fixed and I am hopeful that it will. This issue arises when you have a flood of information and you need to help people find a way to make sense of that information in a way that is likely most interesting to them.
The New, Hot, Popular, etc are good ideas but they ARE all-in-one things. I believe we should keep that because, you can always look at those when the places you normally look at are not doing anything for you on that day.
I'd like to see maybe the Trending page changed so it shows the posts with the MOST VOTES (not money) from different TAGS on the trending page. This would make the trending page seem less like a collection of similar things. It would express the top things across multiple interest areas. Also is it truly TRENDING if it is money that is determining it? One person can give someone big money, and I don't think that really shows a trend. It certainly is likely to make it INTO a trend, but I've also seen posts with a lot of votes and low payouts.
It will I think be important just like with FEEDS (great addition) to add a display that shows people a view based upon TAGS they have subscribed to.
We still need the views that show everything, because you can't know you are interested in a particular tag perhaps until you've read a few things from that tag.
I believe that this will be critical to tackle as more and more people join, because @stellabelle is correct there is already far more information than we can keep up with. Let alone very little time to go back and read old items.
I think feeds may have made things worse (see my longer response if you can find it).
Totally agree. Maybe we should have an option of after 30 minutes but already has ten minnow votes.