How are pens featured on CodePen? Criteria?

[JohnMotylJr]

I am just curious how that process happens. Do a staff member see a pen they like and put it on in or is there some kind of algorithm? Just wondering, i haven’t been able to find anything on it.

[Kitty Giraudel]

It’s like Google’s page rank algorithms: secret. :)

[JohnMotylJr]

Well if that’s the case the algorithm is f**ked up! ;)

[TheDoc]

cc @chriscoyier

[Koopa]

Look on the stats page there you find the secret ;)

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[JohnMotylJr]

I almost thought I found the secret formula..

I should have never said the word ‘algorithm’ should I lol?

[Chris Coyier]

The “Popular” tab does have a secret algorithm actually. I’m not even sure if we care to keep it secret really, it’s not that big of a deal, it just factors in all the stuff you’d assume would be in there like time and comments and views and stuff.

The “Picks” section is literally picked by us. Mostly me, but the other guys too.

We might have guest pickers some weeks. Would that be cool/interesting?

[theacefes]

Different people have different tastes. If you intend to open parts of Codepen up to the community I think that would be a great place to start.

[budachb]

You can get picked randomly if one of the devs sees something they like, or you can post it on their twitter/facebook and they will see it there. That is how one of my pens got picked.

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