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What does the Hot sorting actually mean?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I went into my preferences to change it to Top 6 Hours.
So far, after the change, I'm getting an experience closer to the old reddit (before they messed with the sorting to keep actually interesting things from getting to the top too quickly.)
This also is exposing me to smaller but not dead communities I can subscribe to.
Edit: Although, I suspect there might be a bug with Top 6 Hours in that it tries to do that too when I go to my own profile to see my recent comments. I don't suppose anyone knows where I'd look to see if there's an existing bug report for that? I'd expect, when looking at my own comments, to see ALL of them without the sorting applying to that page. Instead, that page works funky until I set my preferences back to Hot or Top or whatever.
If you set your default sorting method in your settings, it applies it to all pages by default. So your subscribed will also be sorted that way when you might prefer that be sorted by new or active. Then you need to manually choose to sort it differently each time you change between subscribed/local/all.
Yeah, it makes sense for those pages. I just wasn't expecting it to apply to my own comments when I go to my profile page as those pages on most sites exist outside of the forum sorting preferences.