Post recommendations instead of hot posts
Hot posts are usually not so relevant. Instead, we could use the same area to make recommendations tailored to the individual user based on their viewing history, search history, question answering etc.
Suggested items in the post recommendations:
- Questions which are unanswered in a tag where the user has previously answered questions (and received upvotes?)
- Questions which relate closely to previous search results (in the same tags as previously viewed questions)