The way in which the Active and Hot filtering has been stale for days on end has been bugging me so much since I started using Lemmy. I’ve been scrolling past these 3 posts in that exact order every day since they first appeared 4 days ago. Is there any way to fix this?

  • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Reposting my comment from another thread to spread awareness:

    There is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in “hot” and “active” showing stale posts.

    I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

    I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again, but the proper fix will come in the next release of Lemmy.

  • jjakc@lemthony.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Active is more like forums, where the comments are taken into account. So new comments push it back up towards the top.

    Hot seems bugged, for me, it mostly shows me new posts but I know for others it’s showing older ones.

    On smaller instances you can just use new, or Top Day

    • chris@l.roofo.ccEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      A few hours ago a fix was merged for this problem. The cause is that when a post from another server was added to the database the rank was not calculated correctly. It should fix itself after a week but I just did a recalculation of of the ranks manually and now hot is finally usable. With version 1.18.0 it should be resolved for good.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    The time weighting is a little funky for Active and Hot. I would say it is understandable if you consider that until a couple weeks ago, Lemmy had far less frequent posts.

    I’ve been finding Top-Day to be better for getting a front page type experience.

  • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Don’t filter by those - filter by new, or new comments.

    I constantly filter by different sorts all the time - do a round of refreshes with each. It might take a bit of scrolling sometimes to get to the juicy stuff.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Which also seems to hide one owns posts/comments, even in the profile view - at least that was the case for me

      • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately yes. You have to temporarily turn it off if you want to view your own stuff. Interestingly exactly the same way it was on Reddit for more than a decade until they fixed it.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    With the current amount of users I find that sorting by new seems to be the best option. It doesn’t take too long to catch up even if you’re browsing “all”

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It’s a known bug which should get fixed next release. Try bugging your admin to restart the lemmy server though, that fixes it for a little bit. I restart mine every few hours.

  • ghariksforge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It would be great if I can mix Active and Hot feeds in a 50/50% way. That would be the perfect mix of trending and new content.

  • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    All you have to do is switch to new or anything other than default, but yes, having default be 4d old content doesn’t look good.