What’s the difference between active and hot and how does sorting work in general? I sorted by active and all instances and my page reloads and the entire thing is three month old posts from lemmygrad. How exactly does this whole thing work?
What’s the difference between active and hot and how does sorting work in general? I sorted by active and all instances and my page reloads and the entire thing is three month old posts from lemmygrad. How exactly does this whole thing work?
I’m also curious about how it works with a mix of subscribed communities. When I sort my subscribed comments, Hot seems similar (identical?) to New. Active does give me interesting stuff, but hides things I’d be interested in from smaller communities.
I’d like a mix that gives me those more popular posts I’m interested in, but also gives me the less active posts from smaller communities.
You’d need some way of calculating a scaled score of each post in each separate community, then providing a method of sorting all posts using that scaled score. That is, some way to realize a post in a 100 member community with 25 upvotes and 200 comments may be more relevant in a subscriber list compared to a post with 200 upvotes and 100 comments in a community of 10,000.
Of course, I’m not sure I’d want the same scoring mechanism used in all as opposed to subscribed. I want to see the niche but interesting stuff in my subscribed communities. I’m not sure I want that when looking at all, or at least not to the same extent.