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Boosting behavior seems kind of weird #1427

Open ryooan opened 4 days ago

ryooan commented 4 days ago

Currently when we boost something to the top of hot it seems a lot more persistent than it used to be. We can bury after a time, though it would be nicer if there was a more natural degradation for them to move down the feed by themselves.

SylvainChevalier commented 3 days ago

So, two issues there:

  1. This bug: #1449.
  2. The new post activity does not decay over time anymore, but is just "sum of activity in the last week". This was a deliberate simplification. I would prefer to see if fixing 1. improves the situation enough before increasing complexity again.
SylvainChevalier commented 2 days ago

After a chat with @ryooan and other admins, we should seriously consider reintroducing time decay to make the feed more organic.