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 ?
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
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.
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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.
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
Exactly but it’s still great cuz there are many days in life, many chances to see good shit.😁
In theory I like the idea of Active, but in practice the time weighted sorting doesn’t seem to decay quickly enough.
Lemm.ee has fixed the active tab I think. Check it out to see if it’s different than your experience.
Do you know if they’re just resetting their instance at regular intervals?
Yes. I think I read on dev posts this was exactly what they were doing, setting up a cronjob that restarts the refresher.
Have you heard of any federation issues with doing this?
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.
My default is local top day. Then once I go through a few lemmy servers that way I set it to all top day.
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
Yep, me as well, seems to work best 👍.
It’s already been fixed. It just needs to be worked into a stable branched and updated into the instances.
Oh, nice to hear that.
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.
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.
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.
Well, hope sorting by active will work normally by that time
It’s already been fixed in the code. Once they push to all instances we should be able to use the fixed version.
The instance has just been reset so “active” should be better for the moment.
I switch between Top Day and New Comments
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.
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.
Lol what a visceral metaphor. Yuck!
New seems best here IMO
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.
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.
