ceo of pregnant lolis@burggit.moe to Ask Burggit!@burggit.moeEnglish · 1 year agoHow is the trending tab on burggit decided? most of the communities i clicked have no posts in it or just one announcement post.message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareHow is the trending tab on burggit decided? most of the communities i clicked have no posts in it or just one announcement post.ceo of pregnant lolis@burggit.moe to Ask Burggit!@burggit.moeEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareDisa@burggit.moeMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI noticed that too, I imagine it’s something to do with the Lemmy software, I have no idea how it is calculated on a technical aspect, but I generally just ignore it as it’s mostly unhelpful.
minus-squareRA2lover@burggit.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agohttps://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/contributors/07-ranking-algo.md has some info on that but seems to be focused on post/comment sorting. Maybe community sorting uses a similar mechanism but this isn’t clearly mentioned in the documentation. edit: trending communities are local communities sorted by “hot” ranking, which is calculated using the logarithm of the number of subscribers and pulled down by the time the community existed.
minus-squareBurger@burggit.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoOh good you found it, thanks. I was using the wrong keywords when searching their GitHub.
I noticed that too, I imagine it’s something to do with the Lemmy software, I have no idea how it is calculated on a technical aspect, but I generally just ignore it as it’s mostly unhelpful.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/contributors/07-ranking-algo.md has some info on that but seems to be focused on post/comment sorting. Maybe community sorting uses a similar mechanism but this isn’t clearly mentioned in the documentation.
edit: trending communities are local communities sorted by “hot” ranking, which is calculated using the logarithm of the number of subscribers and pulled down by the time the community existed.
Oh good you found it, thanks. I was using the wrong keywords when searching their GitHub.