Open rs443 opened 1 year ago
Example of not so Hot front page. The issue is the same on version 0.17.4 and newest UI: 0.18.1-rc.7 BE: 0.18.1-rc.4.
Have you read the algorithm documentation, if not you should: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
Just so you have an understanding of how it should work. Hot, to my understanding isn't supposed to provide the same kind of rank as reddits Hot sorting. Active is the primary sort.
Reading the Ranking algorithm believes me to think that there are some bugs happening. Min age and max age filter might be a good thing.
I don’t think either Hot nor Active are working as expected for small instances, with primarily federated content. I get really old posts with little active users on the first page of Active:
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Hot sorting on the front page is (or at least should be) a good mix of active and post currently getting a lot of upvotes.
However Hot seems to be plagued with bugs, or the algorithm is not tuned for the influx of new users and posts.
I frequently see hot posts that are anything but hot:
My suggestions: