Sort by active broken on this instance?

3 years ago by dack to c/main

Is it just me, or is sort by active worse on sh.itjust.works than on other instances? On sh.itjust.works, it gives posts (both local and federated) that are weeks old. If I do the same on lemmy.world, it gives much more relevant posts that are a few hours to around a day old. Maybe there are some server settings that could be tweaked?

lemmy 11 points 3 years ago

This is a current bug that will be fixed in the next version I believe. Some instances periodically restart the instance to get this statistic repopulated

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path: 0 371405, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 2

Seraph089 4 points 3 years ago

And to make matters annoying, restarting the service that causes the sorting bug can trigger some other bugs (federation errors iirc). So there isn't a "right" answer until the real fix comes.

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path: 0 371405 382507, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

Gentoo1337 2 points 3 years ago

That's good to know

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path: 0 371405 371698, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

timmytbt 8 points 3 years ago

I sort by “New” if I want the most recent

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path: 0 370620, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 1

god 2 points 3 years ago

I sort by old if I want the oldest

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path: 0 370620 386847, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0

TheDailyChase 6 points 3 years ago

In another thread someone mentioned sorting by Top-Day to get a better lost until the bug fix. It works for me.

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path: 0 375752, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0

can 5 points 3 years ago

I feel this a bit too. Maybe I'm just comparing it to kbin.

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path: 0 371117, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 3

god 2 points 3 years ago

It is broken in software. It's a bug that kills the refresher for the database, so the active posts simply don't get updated at all. Update coming someday.

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path: 0 371117 386837, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 2

can 3 points 3 years ago

Well @TheDude@sh.itjust.works just manually refreshed at least. Hopefully the bug gets fixed soon.

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path: 0 371117 386837 392094, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1

god 3 points 3 years ago

Hoping with ya! 🤞🔥

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path: 0 371117 386837 392094 392145, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0

jeena 2 points 3 years ago

I have the same on my own instance too, my guess it's a bug in lemmy.