@Giana I read your post and you need to look at the glass as half way full not half way empty. We haven't taken anything away, we've only added functionality. There is no right way or wrong way to use this site. The following functionality allows you to do whatever you want, you can be more diverse or be narrow or both it's up to you.

Also, the recommendations aren't designed to be perfect if so it would be hard to generate enough content to fill the pages. Understand we have over 1.5 million images in the galleries, at its core it's just another way to give you more to look at and bring up some of the better art you might be missing.

given enough time, and if you do the math, essentially, if i want a customised experience then i'll need to eventually only surround myself with those of similar minds, and then we can become a hive. how exceptionally boring and narrow in focus.

The 'For You' section is only that, one section of the site. This is the whole point of the 'Trending' & 'Fresh Favorites' & 'Whats Hot' which is based on a global real-time calculation so that it is not reliant on the tailored data.

Again, these tools are just another way to serve more images in creative ways. There's a lot of negativity in these forums and a lot of it is valid but some of it is just a negative outlook on change. There's a lot of good updates here and maybe some bad ones, but it's part of moving forward and we are always open for feedback.

I'm only trying to help educate you guys on some of the recommended ways to use them, but at the end of the day have some fun play around with the new stuff it might just grow on ya.