# Exploring recent notebooks is not working well

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/exploring-recent-notebooks-is-not-working-well/7594>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/exploring-recent-notebooks-is-not-working-well/7594 "2023-02-03T17:28:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophtucker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tophtucker/32/4781_2.png) [@tophtucker](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tophtucker)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/exploring-recent-notebooks-is-not-working-well/7594/5 "2026-09-03T17:06:30Z")

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Just dug this up… see my [reply](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/recent-notebooks-is-very-poor-now/7520/2) from another old thread on this topic I just stumbled across. We agree that we destroyed the salience of the “Recent” feed with those changes a few years ago, and the new Observable goes back to a publishing model to restore the human intent of “this is ready to see”. Hopefully it should get better. [https://observablehq.com/public](https://observablehq.com/public)

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