To be honest, a few years ago I used the trending page to discover useful web tools. Du to my lack of experience the trending page offered a glimpse of what people were working on/with (I used to read the code to learn new techniques) but now I old go there to check on my open source project and answer issues. So I can get the author saying it's not fun anymore, however I find hacker news the new fun place to go to learn and enjoy my time.