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?
From what I can gather, “hot” is somewhat recent posts that are being upvoted, and “active” are posts, regardless of age, which are currently generating a lot of interaction, whether upvotes or comments.
But none of these random lemmygrad posts had comments or upvotes?
I can’t really help you there, my instance blocked lemmygrad so I don’t see any of their content anyway.
When browsing the frontpage or a community, you can choose between the following sort types for posts:
- Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
- Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
- New: Shows most recent posts first
- Old: Shows oldest posts first
- Most Comments: Shows posts with highest number of comments first
- New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums
- Top Day: Highest scoring posts during the last 24 hours
- Top Week: Highest scoring posts during the last 7 days
- Top Month: Highest scoring posts during the last 30 days
- Top Year: Highest scoring posts during the last 12 months
- Top All Time: Highest scoring posts during all time
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.
