What’s the difference between active and hot and how does sorting work in general? I sorted by active and all instances and my page reloads and the entire thing is three month old posts from lemmygrad. How exactly does this whole thing work?

  • Steve@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here’s the documentation.

    When browsing the frontpage or a community, you can choose between the following sort types for posts:

    • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
    • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
    • New: Shows most recent posts first
    • Old: Shows oldest posts first
    • Most Comments: Shows posts with highest number of comments first
    • New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums
    • Top Day: Highest scoring posts during the last 24 hours
    • Top Week: Highest scoring posts during the last 7 days
    • Top Month: Highest scoring posts during the last 30 days
    • Top Year: Highest scoring posts during the last 12 months
    • Top All Time: Highest scoring posts during all time
  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    From what I can gather, “hot” is somewhat recent posts that are being upvoted, and “active” are posts, regardless of age, which are currently generating a lot of interaction, whether upvotes or comments.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t really help you there, my instance blocked lemmygrad so I don’t see any of their content anyway.

  • phase_change@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m also curious about how it works with a mix of subscribed communities. When I sort my subscribed comments, Hot seems similar (identical?) to New. Active does give me interesting stuff, but hides things I’d be interested in from smaller communities.

    I’d like a mix that gives me those more popular posts I’m interested in, but also gives me the less active posts from smaller communities.

    You’d need some way of calculating a scaled score of each post in each separate community, then providing a method of sorting all posts using that scaled score. That is, some way to realize a post in a 100 member community with 25 upvotes and 200 comments may be more relevant in a subscriber list compared to a post with 200 upvotes and 100 comments in a community of 10,000.

    Of course, I’m not sure I’d want the same scoring mechanism used in all as opposed to subscribed. I want to see the niche but interesting stuff in my subscribed communities. I’m not sure I want that when looking at all, or at least not to the same extent.

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First, I wish they had a top hourly. Second, I hate hate hate site wide pinned posts.

    Lemmy instances, listen to me do not use site wide pinned posts! I can understand a once in a long time fundraiser post getting pinned. But keep your pinned posts off my homepage please!