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Why ValueNotifier Fails at Scale: The Non-Composability Problem (and How Signals Fix It)

Valuenotifier has scaling issues

Steady

11

signal score

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sources · flutter

Steady

7-day est. ~9

Why this scored 11

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.3 / 40 max

Engagement per hour, normalized against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+0.0 / 25 max

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+2.8 / 25 max

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+8.5 / 10 max

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.8 / 30 max

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite10.8

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~9

range 810

14-day

~8

range 610

30-day

~8

range 510

Signal history

7-day window (free)

— — projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

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