etc" when browsing Lemmy posts?

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 117 points – 1 years ago

I suspect the meaning is obvious and I'm just being a silly goose, but I've just been sort of bouncing around among them, since I'm not quite sure of the difference.

Active: popular recent posts that people still engage in by posting comments
Hot: popular recent posts but cares more about rating than comments
Top X: Top rated posts in the last X hours/days

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Thank you!!!! That makes sense - so just checking, Top X is like "Hot", but over a certain time period instead of "recent"? (In that it cares about rating instead of how many comments are being posted?)

Seems like bouncing between Active and Hot is still a good thing to do then maybe. To see whatever people are discussing as well as whatever the most upvoted stuff is.

Hot uses an algorithm that cares a little about comment count, but top doesn't care about comments at all. Top just shows you the highest rated posts in order that have been posted within that time frame and that's it.

Got it! That makes sense, thank you.

Related question: is "Hot" super buggy? I am on 0.18.0, but I still often see really really really old posts (1 year old, 2 years old) sprinkled in with new stuff, and I often see clusters of 5-10 posts of a single community grouped together.

I have to pay extra attention to the post age because of this.

this happens to me as well.

Yeah I’m not sure what the algorithm is taking into account in deciding “hot.” Seems it is “recent views but only because the formula fed this old stuff to the last few rounds, too.”