Hello all,
Wanted to open a discussion on Lemmy’s post sorting options right now. I don’t have any experience with implementing this type of thing but right now the algorithm appears… Off? For example, ‘Active’ gives me a lot of posts over a day old but ‘Hot’ may as well be ‘New’ i.e. more recent posts with little engagement.
I don’t know if it’s due to Lemmy still picking up steam or a fundamental flaw with the algorithm. Like I said, I’m really curious to hear the opinions of those more knowledgeable.
I’m on jerboa, and like others are saying “active” is pretty ass and ‘hot’ is okay. My main actual complaint is the inability to sort comments! Please God, I’m tired of seeing the rare hateful message with 1/2 up votes on top, and then a more normal good comment with 50 up votes beneath it. Going to be a real problem for onboarding people and optics.
Yup, this is my biggest issue with Jerboa as well. Using the browser, it has a comment sort but it also has some scrolling bug that was making me unable to read headlines or click on posts haha.
Seems like there is an active PR for this
There is an option to hide posts that you’ve already read in settings, I know that’s not exactly the same thing, and I haven’t tested it out, but that might help solve the problem of seeing the same posts every time we open the app