How the TIME&SPACE App Decides What You See First
TIME&SPACE · Organiser's Playbook
The TIME&SPACE app home feed is not one flat list. A small set of personal cards sits above it, then a ranked feed decides which events to show first, weighing how soon an event starts, how live it is right now, and whether it matches what you actually care about.
How the TIME&SPACE App Decides What You See First
In short: Open the TIME&SPACE app and the first thing you see is not a plain chronological list. A small pinned zone shows anything personal to you, like photos you were just found in, above everything else. Below that, a ranked feed orders events by how soon they start, how live they are right now, and how well they match your interests and your city.
Most event apps show one list, sorted by date, the same for everyone who opens it. TIME&SPACE does something narrower on purpose: a short personal zone first, then one ranked feed, because the two jobs a home screen does, helping you decide what to do next and handing you photos from something you just attended, pull in different directions.
What gets pinned above the feed
If a selfie scan just found you in new photos, that sits at the very top, because it is the most useful thing the app can tell you in that moment. Right behind it: an event you attended or marked as going to, where photos just went live but you have not scanned yet. A saved event happening today sits there too. At most two of these cards show at once, and only when they genuinely apply to you. Most opens of the app show none of them, and that is fine: the ranked feed underneath is where discovery actually happens.
How the ranked feed orders everything else
Underneath the pinned zone, every event competes on the same handful of factors. How soon it starts matters most: today beats next week, next week beats next month. An event that is live right now gets a real boost, strongest in its first hours and fading as it goes on, so a three month exhibition does not sit pinned at the top for three months just because it is technically still running. Past events fade the same way in reverse: a gallery from two weeks ago ranks well below one from yesterday, even though both already happened.
On top of that, the feed leans toward what you actually follow and where you are. An event in a category you have shown interest in, or in the city you are currently browsing, ranks higher than one that matches neither. None of this hides anything: an event you have no stated interest in still appears, just further down, because most of what is in the app is imported listings nobody has told us anything about yet.
What makes an event itself rank better
Two things an organiser controls directly affect where their own event lands: a real cover photo and an actual description. An event missing either is quietly penalised in the ranking, not hidden, just pushed down behind events that gave guests something to look at before they tapped in. The feed also avoids stacking the same organiser's events back to back: however many events one organiser runs, the feed spaces them out across the list rather than letting one name take over a guest's scroll.
The short version
Open the app and whatever is personally yours, a fresh match, photos waiting on an event you already attended, comes first. Everything else is ranked by how soon or how live it is, how well it matches what you follow and where you are, and whether the organiser gave it a real cover photo and description. The goal is the same screen doing two jobs at once: tell you what to do next, and hand you back what you just found. If you are still waiting to hear about new photos from somewhere you have already scanned, that runs on the same logic covered in get notified when more of your event photos appear.
Founder, TIME&SPACE