I am aware that upvoted posts make it to https://kbin.social/fav however that just doesn’t work well as I already have 1,000+ pages in there. Moreover, that only registers upvoted posts and not comments. A workaround would be to just use boost, and only upvote when you want to “save” but that is just not conventional imho. The ability on /r to simply save a comment or a post is truly basic but effective.
EDIT: Relevant Codeberg issue
If I look at the top posts on /all/:
Total
1958 |Upvotes
711 |Downvotes
43 |Boosts
645 | LinkTotal
1408 |Upvotes
608 |Downvotes
20 |Boosts
410 | LinkTotal
2062 |Upvotes
1274 |Downvotes
16 |Boosts
402 | LinkTotal
2198 |Upvotes
1568 |Downvotes
2 |Boosts
316 | LinkFormula for total I’m using is
boosts * 2 + upvotes - downvotes
.Really doesn’t look to me like that’s what it uses.
Though, now that you mentioned it, I do notice that rarely the posts aren’t in order of boosts. Maybe the sorting algorithm uses an entirely different formula? Boosts do seem to be mostly responsible though, judging by what I see on /all/.
A long time ago, back at the beginning (was that a month ago now?) Ernest posted that the boost button moved a thread to the top of the Active list and added some points for its score on Hot.
I was mostly going by what Ernest posted on codeburg four weeks ago.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
I’ll admit that other than noting by eye
I’ve not actually tried making a spreadsheet to check the algorithm (…yet!)
Edit: looking at /all perhaps for articles the number of comments is counted too somehow?
Edit2: If you formatted your table as a code snippet it would probably work since it would use a fixed-width font.