I’m curious to get everyone’s thoughts on opportunities to improve!

  • AureliusOP
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    58 months ago

    As in better sorting options?

    • Dr. Moose
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      68 months ago

      Yes the front page sucks no matter what sorting option you use and it’s not because the posted content is shitty its just sucks in the way it presents it.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        To be honest, I still don’t really know the difference between ‘hot’ and ‘active’

        Wish those had more accurate descriptors.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          It’s explained here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

          Basically, Hot and Active show posts based on upvotes minus down votes, with a time decay so older posts rank lower.

          Hot has the time decay based on created time, so you’ll basically only see posts from the last day or so.

          Active has the time decay based on the most recent comment, so if someone comments it can bring an old post back to the top.

          There is also Scaled (if your instance has updated to 0.19), which is like Hot but posts from communities with less active users will get a boost so you don’t miss out on posts in small communities from being drowned out by big community posts with lists of upvotes.

    • @JubilantJaguar
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      28 months ago

      To change the default for comment sorting, YES PLEASE.

      I am having to click “Top” for every single post. It’s become a reflex but seriously this is crazy. It feels like I must be doing something wrong but I have looked everywhere for the setting and there isn’t one. I’ve assumed this is just an oversight that will soon be fixed, but it never is.

      I just don’t get it.

      • AureliusOP
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        18 months ago

        Are you using a specific lemmy app? I imagine that many apps have this