Post sorting methods seem broken recently
Post sorting methods seem broken recently
Hi all, a few weeks ago I started noticing a change to the active and hot sorting methods. They show stale topics and I miss the boat on conversations. Seems like something changed and just curious if it’s just me or if others are seeing this too?
Can you share some example screenshots with links to the posts?
Top 3 from All sorted by Active. The 3 hrs one isn’t too bad but I regularly see 17hr+ on the this list.
https://feddit.de/post/10495849 https://lemmy.world/post/13653748 https://lemmy.world/post/13677705
Active sort is not based on when the post was created, it's based on the age of the most recent comment. Those all have a lot of comments and upvotes so I think it makes sense for them to be at the top of Active.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Here’s roughly the second page