Why is sorting by “hot” showing me old, inactive posts?

3 years ago by tigerdactyl to c/asklemmy

Seems like hot was the best way to sort for a while, but lately it’s been filling up with inactive posts, some from years ago. Did something change?

terribleplan 25 points 3 years ago

They have been tuning the algorithm for that in the past releases, so may be related to that. Also, there is/was a bug where if you don't restart lemmy (on the server) regularly stuff will get stuck at the top of hot and/or active.

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path: 0 665071, hotness: undefined, score: 25, children: 2

tigerdactyl 9 points 3 years ago

That makes sense, figured it’s some kind of growing pain. Wanted to make sure it wasn’t something on my end. I’ve only noticed if the past couple days.

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path: 0 665071 665115, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1

can 12 points 3 years ago

Keep in mind lemmy was a lot less active when this was initially configured. Growing pains.

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path: 0 665071 665115 665196, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0

tigerdactyl 11 points 3 years ago

for example - this is not far down the list

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path: 0 664764, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 0

14specks 6 points 3 years ago

c/asklemmy is not for support. Please use !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml for support requests and feedback.

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path: 0 669113, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0

quinten 5 points 3 years ago

The Lemmy site itself does have sorting problems as of right now. Try to use wefwef.app, Memmy for iPhone or another Android app. They seem to work fine!

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path: 0 664858, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0

minorsecond 4 points 3 years ago

You want the support community, not this one.

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path: 0 666818, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0

CyanFen 3 points 3 years ago

I'm getting ones from 10 months ago 😆

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path: 0 667061, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0