The way in which the Active and Hot filtering has been stale for days on end has been bugging me so much since I started using Lemmy. I’ve been scrolling past these 3 posts in that exact order every day since they first appeared 4 days ago. Is there any way to fix this?
Active is more like forums, where the comments are taken into account. So new comments push it back up towards the top.
Hot seems bugged, for me, it mostly shows me new posts but I know for others it’s showing older ones.
On smaller instances you can just use new, or Top Day
A few hours ago a fix was merged for this problem. The cause is that when a post from another server was added to the database the rank was not calculated correctly. It should fix itself after a week but I just did a recalculation of of the ranks manually and now hot is finally usable. With version 1.18.0 it should be resolved for good.
Reposting my comment from another thread to spread awareness:
There is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in “hot” and “active” showing stale posts.
I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again, but the proper fix will come in the next release of Lemmy.
The time weighting is a little funky for Active and Hot. I would say it is understandable if you consider that until a couple weeks ago, Lemmy had far less frequent posts.
I’ve been finding Top-Day to be better for getting a front page type experience.
Top-Day is the way.
I would like to see them add what kbin does with 3,6,12,etc hour options for top, active, and hot
