{"id":"social-trends-mcp-server","name":"social-trends-mcp-server","af_score":48.2,"security_score":40.8,"reliability_score":17.5,"what_it_does":"A Python MCP server that exposes tools for retrieving and aggregating trending topics from public Reddit and Hacker News sources (plus Hacker News search), intended for AI agents to query current social/tech trends.","best_when":"When an AI agent needs lightweight, read-only discovery of trending content from public sources, and occasional freshness/rate-limit constraints are acceptable.","avoid_when":"Avoid for mission-critical decisioning where you require strong guarantees around uptime, response consistency, and robust error/idempotency behavior that are not documented.","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:44:08.739934+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":[],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Upstream public APIs may impose rate limits and change response formats; without documented retry/backoff, agents may experience failures under load","Search and trending endpoints can be freshness- and availability-dependent (HN/Reddit may throttle or intermittently fail)","No documented MCP server auth or usage constraints—agents may call tools freely in environments where you would otherwise restrict tool access"],"error_quality":0.0}