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Hi All, Salut à tou.te.s

So, by default, the "front-page" whatever how it's called is sorted by "Active" which is showing mostly one week old post, you know the big strike.

I know that I can sort by "new" but is there something more suited to see the recent but popular thread ?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Top Day seems to be working well for me. Since things generally move a bit slower on here than the Reddit firehose, Top Day gives you a nice blend of newer stuff plus stuff that has some active discussions going on

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I set top day subscribed, go through a few new subscribed, go on kbin, set it to hot defederated, hot federated, quickly skim the microblog threads on there, go on lemm.ee, visit hot and active subscribed (they have applied a fix to the active problem on this one that shows days old posts), and then I go through many of the communities I'm subscribed to and go through active, hot, new, etc., and basically see what's up.

I basically mentioned all the sorting methods right? But what's the best one, you ask? Probably kbin by hot local and hot federated. And on Lemmy itself, probably lemm.ee hot. And on this instance, probably new for subscribed and top day for sub, local and all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen you pop up twice now in the verse and I had to stop and tell you your username is awesome!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

:) it's a pretty good descriptor for me: irreverent, irreligious, enormous ego, habits of creation... It also makes any joke funnier. And people call me God. What's not to like 😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I sort by Type: Subscribed; Sort type: New.

As the threadiverse grows, I may consider switching to Active. But for now, I like New.

You may also consider Top Day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like top of the day only works right as you start your day but after that it just shows you the same stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly but it's still great cuz there are many days in life, many chances to see good shit.😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In theory I like the idea of Active, but in practice the time weighted sorting doesn't seem to decay quickly enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee has fixed the active tab I think. Check it out to see if it's different than your experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if they're just resetting their instance at regular intervals?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. I think I read on dev posts this was exactly what they were doing, setting up a cronjob that restarts the refresher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you heard of any federation issues with doing this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I read there were small issues arising from this, probably hiccups in synchronization during sync downtime and re-ask. I reckon a few items get delayed in sync, including a few votes, comments and posts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, active and hot are kinda broken, and now devs are really busy trying to fix performance issue, so for some time it's either New or Top. I usually use New

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, me as well, seems to work best 👍.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's already been fixed. It just needs to be worked into a stable branched and updated into the instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, nice to hear that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My default is local top day. Then once I go through a few lemmy servers that way I set it to all top day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to have it set to "all" and "new comments". There is some movement but its slow enough to be usable. Also posts which are very active are more likely to appear there but you still see some newer stuff.

I really hope the "hot" and "active" algorithms will be fixed soon though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The slow movement feels like a feature in that I can see the trickle of communities get created, the new/all feed used to be such a dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The instance has just been reset so "active" should be better for the moment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I go by new. Obviously the content level here is not Reddit-esque yet, so it’s still remarkably manageable to do this way. At some point, I imagine (hope?) needing to shift to “hot” or “active,” but that time hasn’t come for me, yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, hope sorting by active will work normally by that time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's already been fixed in the code. Once they push to all instances we should be able to use the fixed version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

New is always the way to sort, anywhere. Relying on someone else's opinion to guide what you see is like chewing second hand gum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lol what a visceral metaphor. Yuck!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But I hate the tedium of having to break in my own gum. Or what if the gum wasn't worth chewing?

One thing you can say about second hand gum is someone thought it was worth chewing.

tongue in cheek, or maybe it's actually gum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I switch between Top Day and New Comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On the instances where hot is working, I think it does work pretty nicely for this. Hopefully it'll be up and working everywhere very soon with the next update. When I'm on an account with an instance where it's not working, I tend to switch between top-day and new. Going into individual communities as well you can easily see what was popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

New seems best here IMO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Active is broke in the current version. Top of the day usually shows active posts, but only one page. New shows multiple pages, but the shown posts don'thave much traction.

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