FYI sort by "Top Day" if you're tired of seeing the same top posts from 2-3 days ago
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.
There's a bug with the hot sorting algorithm. Basically the process that handles sorting the feed will crash after a few hours. (At least, that's what I've been told is the issue)
Your server admin can restart the lemmy process every once in a while as a bandaid until next update.
Any news on if this will be fixed soon?
Should be with the 0.18 update, which is a pretty big one that will fix some other things too. I don't think it will be that long but I don't want to go in the admin group chat going "wen release" I know how annoying that is especially for a volunteer project.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
You can follow the issue directly on Github for updates; seems its being actively worked now right now
I'm glad to hear the issue with the Hot algorithm is a bug, but the Active feed seems to be almost completely static as well and has been that way for a while. It's been all the same old posts basically the entire time I've been on Lemmy. Hot was the escape hatch for me until it stopped working as well, but I feel something needs to be adjusted with Active too in addition to fixing Hot. Especially since Active is the default.
I bounce between top day and new which seems to help.
I've noticed the sorting algorithm on Kbin is much better than Lemmy's. Much more churn in the posts when I refresh.
@zalack @MicroWave I went to kbin.social today to see what the fuss is all about. Looks just like reddit lol. And it's so clean
Lol, the current situation is so messed that I can't tell if "it looks just like Reddit" is praise or criticism haha.
But yeah, I love it!
Switching to Top Day just gave me a slew of 1 upvote no comment posts, as if I has switched to New.
Worked for me using [all]
i've been struggling with this problem and don't know what to do - but at least it sounds like it's not just me.
Mine ended up being that someone already took my username. They aren't using it by the looks of it, though. :\
New comments also sometimes works. I think the hot algorithm has a known bug where the posts don't lose ranking over time
That is for this! I was sorting by new and this is much better to see the active posts of the day.
I gather there is a bug in the code for what generates the "Hot" sort and that it only resets when the server is restarted. I believe there is already a fix on GitHub, but person that runs the instance needs to implement it.
Can't wait for Lemmy 0.18!
What is in that release?
The fix for the hot not updating bug
Hot and active sorting are buggen in version 0.17.4
For me "Hot" suddenly started showing fresh posts again after 3 days of stagnation. Nevertheless sorting by "top day" is a genius idea that I'm definitely going to use, thx for the tip!
Good tip, thanks. I think it would also be nice for people to sort by New and up/down vote to push more stuff to the Top lists.
Just started doing this thank you!!!
Top of day works, but everytime i select all instead ot local it reverts back to local. Rip.
Don't forget that on Jerboa at least, there is an option to hide post you've already read. Makes it a bit easier to sift through all the content.
Great tip! Works very nice in Jerboa.