cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/192630

I’ve been noticing myself that sorting by active or hot just gives me days old posts, so I’ve been sorting by new but it’s not a great experience. this should be a pretty good middle ground.

Not sure what’s happening with the ranking algorithm, but it seems like the default main page is still displaying the same set of popular posts from a few days ago.

But if you switch to sorting by “Top Day,” it’ll show fresh popular posts from the past day.

  • Tot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Change the Sort Type in your account settings. Much better than changing it manually every time you visit.

  • nyahlathotep
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been going to new, and then going to the second page to avoid post bursts. I just refresh when I want new stuff. It’s worked pretty well for me so far. Hopefully 0.18 is out soon and fixes the bursting and hot/active algorithm issues

    • Questy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Was going to say, be brave, sort new. Actually quite a lot going on which is nice to see.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I thought I was doing something wrong but I guess this is a common issue then. Bad timing to have such a weird user experience just when we’re having an influx of new users, who will surely get frustrated.

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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t around then, but apparently the functionality that led to bursting was added when Lemmy was much smaller, so it would just update with 1 or 2 new posts at a time since there were so few. When it ballooned it pretty much broke that unfortunately.

  • Triazyze
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I just did that, because I was tired of seeing the same post ever since I made an account here. I can actually see the new content now.