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?
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
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.
But none of these random lemmygrad posts had comments or upvotes?
I can’t really help you there, my instance blocked lemmygrad so I don’t see any of their content anyway.
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.
This is a great idea. Take my up arrow!
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!