Current

The recommendation feed filters by top scores of "Day/Week/Month/Year/AllTime".

In practice, this often leads to a frustrating flow on my end, typically:

• Select Day and get no results.
• Switch to Week and get only a couple of videos.
• Switch to Month and get a more useful list, although I would like to see recent videos first.
• For more, switch to Year, which is a very large temporal jump (highest score priority).

What the current recommendations provides:
"Show the best-ranked videos inside a few coarse time windows."

Feature

Instead I often want:
"Show recent videos with a good score" (without having to play with the filters until it returns a non empty list)
As an alternative to the default "Sort by score".

Impl

Sort by date

An easy solution would be a "ORDER BY publication_date DESC"

Trending

A more sophisticated solution could balancing date and score:

• Very new but weakly supported videos should not be over-promoted.
• Very old but highly rated videos should not be over-promoted.
• If a formula is used to weight date/score, it may introduces some opaqueness to the recommendation.