Right now I have my feed sorted by Hot. The sixth post in my feed is 19 days old, has zero comments, and one upvote. I’m struggling to work out what algorithm is deciding this is a Hot post

    • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      The answers always in the GitHub lol, but I haven’t been here long and I was sure something was off with the sorting but assumed it was due to server issues or low on the fix list.

  • doctortofu@reddthat.comEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    Sorting by anything seems pretty buggy now - growing pains, I guess. I tend to sort by “New comments” and from time to time I’ll get threads with zero comments on top of my feed…

    I’m sure it’s going to get better with time - right now we’re all basically taking part in an extended load test for Lemmy and federation mechanisms :)

    • port888@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      I just use “Top in 6 hours” as a functional substitute for “Hot”.

      • doctortofu@reddthat.comEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        True - which seems to be a bug to me, since that’s what studying by New is supposed to show. I do find all the bugs kinda endearing though - reminds me of the internet of old and the time when reddit wax starting :)

  • trambe@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    From what I understand, hot is supposed to be like Reddit where they show up posts that are gaining traction in the day.

    But yeah it’s pretty buggy right now, been seeing a lot of old posts too

    • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago
      • Lemmy uses the same Rank algorithm above, in two sorts: Active, and Hot.
        • Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
        • Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
  • IonAddis@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    I went into my preferences to change it to Top 6 Hours.

    So far, after the change, I’m getting an experience closer to the old reddit (before they messed with the sorting to keep actually interesting things from getting to the top too quickly.)

    This also is exposing me to smaller but not dead communities I can subscribe to.

    Edit: Although, I suspect there might be a bug with Top 6 Hours in that it tries to do that too when I go to my own profile to see my recent comments. I don’t suppose anyone knows where I’d look to see if there’s an existing bug report for that? I’d expect, when looking at my own comments, to see ALL of them without the sorting applying to that page. Instead, that page works funky until I set my preferences back to Hot or Top or whatever.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you set your default sorting method in your settings, it applies it to all pages by default. So your subscribed will also be sorted that way when you might prefer that be sorted by new or active. Then you need to manually choose to sort it differently each time you change between subscribed/local/all.

      • IonAddis@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, it makes sense for those pages. I just wasn’t expecting it to apply to my own comments when I go to my profile page as those pages on most sites exist outside of the forum sorting preferences.

  • ebits21@lemmy.ca
    17·
    1 year ago

    Supposed to be based on time since posted with some kind of logarithmic decay and rating.

    But yeah it seems buggy.

  • Horselover Fat
    8·
    1 year ago

    For a big instance, Hot sorting seems to work pretty well. Otherwise Top Day is probably a better choice.

  • TheFriendlyDickhead
    71·
    1 year ago

    I actually enjoy that the algorithm is not that good. I hate it that every site nowadays just throws everything they think you want at you. It’s so refreshing to just see what people are posting without that complex stuff going on in the back.