What does the Hot sorting actually mean?

mizu6079 , 11 months ago

From my experience, sorting by Hot on Lemmy has always been kinda weird

ebits21 , 11 months ago

Supposed to be based on time since posted with some kind of logarithmic decay and rating.

But yeah it seems buggy.

doctortofu , 11 months ago

Sorting by anything seems pretty buggy now - growing pains, I guess. I tend to sort by “New comments” and from time to time I’ll get threads with zero comments on top of my feed…

I’m sure it’s going to get better with time - right now we’re all basically taking part in an extended load test for Lemmy and federation mechanisms :)

Kolanaki , 11 months ago

Every time I have seen a post with 0 comments at the top when sorting by New Comments, the post itself was just posted.

doctortofu , 11 months ago

True - which seems to be a bug to me, since that’s what studying by New is supposed to show. I do find all the bugs kinda endearing though - reminds me of the internet of old and the time when reddit wax starting :)

Kolanaki , 11 months ago

I don’t think it’s a bug since it even says that sort method is meant to be like an old forum system. All new posts, or posts with new replies, get bumped to the top.

port888 , 11 months ago

I just use “Top in 6 hours” as a functional substitute for “Hot”.

Mane25 , 11 months ago

I’m sure it’s growing pains. When it works it seems to be the best way of sorting things, but after a while it seems to give you new, relevant stuff interlaced with really old irrelevant stuff.

HorseFD , 11 months ago

For a big instance, Hot sorting seems to work pretty well. Otherwise Top Day is probably a better choice.

Sev , 11 months ago

I like to use Hot for up and coming kinda posts, or finding random communities. When I get bored of that, I normally do one of the Top ones (Day, 3, 6 hours etc).

SamC , 11 months ago

There is a bug with hot sorting at the moment: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3428

If you want to know how it’s supposed to work, see: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/07-ranking-algo.html

TheGoldenGod , 11 months ago

The answers always in the GitHub lol, but I haven’t been here long and I was sure something was off with the sorting but assumed it was due to server issues or low on the fix list.

trambe , 11 months ago

From what I understand, hot is supposed to be like Reddit where they show up posts that are gaining traction in the day.

But yeah it’s pretty buggy right now, been seeing a lot of old posts too

Wander , 11 months ago

That’s just a bug. It gets better with newer versions of Lemmy.

eporetsky , 11 months ago

Funny that the first post I saw when sorting by Hot is a post asking what hot sorting is

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

That's the secret. It sorts all threads so that the ones about hot things are first.

Quill0 , 11 months ago

Sort by new and be the change you want to see

Neirin_D , 11 months ago

For me, the first page is showing new stuff but the second page sometimes shows posts from weeks ago or even 2 years ago.

Edit: hot is completely broken when I browse subscribed posts.

Brkdncr , 11 months ago

As far as I can tell, when I sort by hot it overheats the CPU of the instance server.

zkfcfbzr , 11 months ago

Sorting by hot and All, my front page looks like this right now - guess the bugged algorithm really likes that community for some reason.

Hiccup , 11 months ago

Mine keeps pushing the firefox community to the top for some reason.

Saneless , 11 months ago

Same for me

Chickenstalker , 11 months ago

Cultured gentlemen of honour sort by new.

misterundercoat , 11 months ago

Top SixHour gang

Pog , 11 months ago

I love sorting by new, its chock full of interesting (and shit) content that you’ll never know what to expect lmao