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?

  • acqrs@acqrs.co.uk
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    2 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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      2 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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    2 years ago

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

    • God
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      2 years ago

      I sort by old if I want the oldest

  • TheDailyChase
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    2 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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    2 years ago

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

    • God
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      2 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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      It is. Version 0.18 fixes it. Someday.