Over the last few days, it seems that filtering by Hot or Active just makes me see the same posts I’ve seen over the last few days (stealing memes meme and $4k fridge).

Filtering by New on Lemmy, however, is not the toxic filth that Reddit is, and generally gets the job done.

Unless I am doing something wrong, Hot and Active seem to not update enough / hide what I’ve already seen. I am doing my Subscribed, about 20 subs.

  • @[email protected]English
    33•1 year ago

    This has been the same experience for me, Active/Hot shows posts from Monday because they’re still gaining comments but New shows genuinely new posts. I think the algorithm may simply not be tuned for tens of thousands of users

    • @[email protected]English
      32•1 year ago

      Known bug, will be fixed in 0.18. Certain edge cases cause the hot_rank to not decrease, meaning they never leave the front page.

      • newbeniEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        Is there a planned release date for 0.18?

        • @[email protected]English
          20•1 year ago

          Copy-pasting from my other answer here:

          Trite answer: When it’s done

          More in-depth answer: Currently there’s no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that’s the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that’s done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.

          Current estimations I’ve seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.

          • @imbrokenowboiEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            Why are they getting rid of WebSockets? Shouldn’t this be good in terms of handling large amounts of users?