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Bug: The feed storied are not rendering chronologically #11

Open robinneb opened 8 years ago

robinneb commented 8 years ago

Bug: The primary feed is not showing in chronological order. Please see the screenshot for details

The first post is from the 27th of January and the second one is the 22nd of March

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R0bert75 commented 8 years ago

Actually it is not a bug but rather a feature. If you will look at Friends Feed - it will be rendered chronologically. But "Around" feed is different, there are feed presets (gender/age/location/content category) for different user groups. And this leads to the situation when some older posts are shown above newer ones. It will not be so obvious when we will have lots of posts in the feed. Btw Instagram implemented similar logic in their feed.

robinneb commented 8 years ago

@R0bert75 - I see! Okay so what logic is used to place stories into the Around feed? You mention gender/age/location etc. but how is that ordered to determine what I see first?

R0bert75 commented 8 years ago

There is a complex formula - several content categories, each with percentage. If there are few posts in one or several categories (which is true now - we have very little posts) there is a possibility that older posts in this categories will be seen prior to new ones from different categories. We are still tweaking this algorithm and I hope that by the time of launch we will be able to avoid such kind of situations.