Sorting by Scaled is awesome

3 years ago by BlueTardis to c/voyagerapp

I only just noticed this option for sorting my feed. I do have a reasonably curated selection of large and small and using “scaled” gives the results I would expect across them all.

Give it a go.

Mereo 71 points 3 years ago

This sort was introduced in Lemmy 0.19:

A new scaled sort option has been added. This sort is identical to the Hot sort, but also takes into account the number of each community’s active monthly users, and so helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top.

https://lemmy.ml/post/5711722

save

path: 0 8465852, hotness: undefined, score: 71, children: 0

HootinNHollerin 42 points 3 years ago

This is a lemmy thing not a voyager thing btw

save

path: 0 8465564, hotness: undefined, score: 42, children: 0

cloudless 29 points 3 years ago

Thanks. I find the terms too vague. It isn't obvious what Active vs Hot vs Scaled are. I am going to give it a try.

save

path: 0 8464914, hotness: undefined, score: 29, children: 7

mac 16 points 3 years ago

My guess from the names:

Hot - Received a lot of upvotes

Active - Lots of comments

Scaled - Hot but takes into account smaller posts and communities

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 5

Klanky 8 points 3 years ago

How is hot different from top?

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463 8470492, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 4

GiuseppeAndTheYeti 5 points 3 years ago

This is just conjecture from experience, but I would guess that hot is a weighted sort that shows posts in order of upvotes per unit time. While top is net total of upvotes in a determined time period.

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463 8470492 8474663, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

HootinNHollerin 2 points 3 years ago

Hot is rising

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463 8470492 8496506, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

mac 1 point 3 years ago

Top is most upvotes in a specified amount of time, Hot is receiving lots of reactions around the time you view the filter. So hot and top may overlap but a post with 1000 upvotes in the last week may show below a post with 400 in hot because that post got 350 upvotes in the last hour whereas the one with 1000 only got 50 in the last hour.

Also note these are just guesses on my behalf, I'm not sure how they actually work I've not looked at the code, these answers just make the most logical sense to me.

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463 8470492 8483620, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

Viking_Hippie 1 point 3 years ago

save

path: 0 8464914 8466463 8470492 8473836, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

the_artic_one 10 points 3 years ago

Here's the page that explains all the sorting options: https://join-lemmy.org/...

save

path: 0 8464914 8471547, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0

Fake4000 8 points 3 years ago

I tried it and was not entirely happy with it.

I usually stick to New on my list of communities and it's been good.

save

path: 0 8464649, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0

My_friend_Johnny 7 points 3 years ago

Reddit had sort by rising, which I loved. This is probably the equivalent of that.

save

path: 0 8470010, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1

huginn 6 points 3 years ago

Top past 6 hours feels like rising to me, probably because of the small size of Lemmy.

save

path: 0 8470010 8471898, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0

Viking_Hippie 6 points 3 years ago

I thought that was for finding reptiles?

save

path: 0 8473817, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0

Ulvain 5 points 3 years ago

Shhh, don't be scaled, you'll ok.

save

path: 0 8472198, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

DannyBoy 4 points 3 years ago

Oh cool, this is an option in Thunder now, I didn't notice before

save

path: 0 8468581, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

Trollception 0 points 3 years ago

It's in Sync as well. I don't know why I always read complaints about sync not being updated frequently.

save

path: 0 8468710, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 3

Sentau 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah but the option appeared in sync only after around 3 months after the release of Lemmy 0.19

save

path: 0 8468710 8532305, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

Maalus 2 points 3 years ago

You read those because the dev has a tendency to leave for months at a time and returning when it's really bad to get a few updates up.

save

path: 0 8468710 8469170, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

TrickDacy 2 points 3 years ago

Because the dev disappears for months at a time. That's said often enough that it's clearly true.

save

path: 0 8468710 8468907, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

thisbenzingring -5 points 3 years ago

funny how its the only sort item that doesn't have a capital letter as its first character

save

path: 0 8468924, hotness: undefined, score: -5, children: 5

Mindhunter 1 point 3 years ago

What ? It does. Edit: I meant it does start with capital.

save

path: 0 8468924 8470087, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 4

thisbenzingring 0 points 3 years ago

funny that 4 people (as of this) have downvoted me for pointing that out.

I just looked again, controversial appears to be lower case in some screens and upper case in others.

save

path: 0 8468924 8470087 8470292, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 3

aeharding 2 points 3 years ago

Do you have a screenshot?

save

path: 0 8468924 8470087 8470292 8470432, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1

thisbenzingring 2 points 3 years ago

So I just realized that I am in the Voyager community, sorry. But I wasn't aware of that feature and replied. Could be my instance or something else and not Voyager

save

path: 0 8468924 8470087 8470292 8470432 8471266, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

Mindhunter 1 point 3 years ago

I meant it does start with capital

save

path: 0 8468924 8470087 8470292 8470719, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0

Rules

Sponsor development! 👇

Rules

Sponsor development! 👇