I’ve noticed that most communities mainly show day-old posts with default sorting. Sorting by New or Hot helps with seeing newer posts. Kinda obvious, but I sure didn’t realize until trying it out 😅
I’ve been doing this, and have been finding it to be a much more enjoyable experience.
Reddit was 1000s of posts a minute, while Lemmy is more like 5 posts a minute if that.
In a way I like it more, feels much more engaging.
Also need more top sorts:
12 hours, 6, 3, 1
I sort by most popular for the last day. Lets me browse what’s popular while keeping my feed fresh.
I like Top/Day and New Comments
My problem is not with smaller communities, but the frontpage sucks in active, hot, or new sort. I’ve found New Comments to be a better sort, but I would much rather have the active and hot sorts to be fixed/tweaked to populate fresh posts on the front page. Do we have any ETA on any changes to those sorts?
sort frontpage by top of the day
May be if we had a Top Hour, or Top 4 Hours or something like that.
Hot is broken atm. There’s an edge case that can happen that stops the hot_rank value decreasing, meaning it never leaves the first page.
Gonna be fixed in 0.18, but yeah, use New until then.
They should tighten the time bounds or make it customisable or dynamic based on the community activity too.
48 hours worked when Lemmy was small, but now there are a lot more posts.
I’ve been doing All/Hot as my default view and it seems to refresh often enough, not sure why I’m not having the same problem as others
Could be that with less users on lemmy.one, there’s less people using the search for specific posts. The edge case triggers when a user does that. The hot_rank column functions normally if nobody searches for posts.
Yeah honestly I picked it randomly and had been regretting not going with a bigger instance, but now I’m glad I went with it because I can still read both Beehaw and Lemmy.world so I’m not really caught up in that whole drama. Seems that there are some advantages to being on a smaller instance
It will take some time before I stop trying to refresh the front page habitually, but I like the variety of posts I’ve seen fly by on KBIN the past days. Had to filter out some german pages though.
Yeah, what was with that? No other communities in different languages sneaking through, but I’ve blocked several German ones now.
I have been sorting by top day and I like it.
i’ve been trying to use top day as that’s typically my favorite filter. however there seems to be some kind of bug where all the newest posts keep jumping into my top-day list at the top. is it just me? not sure where to reach out about this… the posts are spammy porn ones too so it seems like someone else is aware and exploiting this…
That is a bug, there is something about it on github.
i’m having a very hard time using lemmy with this show-stopping bug and can’t figure out how everyone else isn’t just as frustrated as me or why no one seems to be doing anything about it. none of the filter options actually work with ALL and that’s all i really use. i just want to ditch reddit ffs.
