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.

  • nyahlathotepEnglish
    6•2 years 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

    • @QuestyEnglish
      5•2 years ago

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

    • @bayesianbotEnglish
      3•2 years 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.

      • nyahlathotepEnglish
        3•2 years 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.