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The xkcd guy made that?
I slightly mis-remembered apparently, he introduced the idea to reddit and was a heavy heavy advocate for it, but I he didn't come up with it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100115155608/http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html
So is there a Lemmy/kbin equivalent?
Hmm... 2008... when did Reddit stop being OpenSource?
Yep! The Reddit version, at least. Dunno if the Lemmy/Kbin sorts are the same or not.
Before that, it was sorted by top. I think subreddits were top/day, and comments were top/all time. Frontpage was top/day for all the subreddits you were subscribed to (or top/day for a selection of "default" subreddits if you didn't have an account).
I would also like a source for this, thats really cool.
Do you have a source for this? That's interesting but I can't find the origin of this story.
Best I could find is here, which is an article by Randall Munroe (the xkcd artist), and states:
This blog post links to another wayback machine page (thank you archive.org!) here, which explains the sorting algorithm and states it's original author:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091210094533/http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html
@Sproux for you as well.
I mis-remembered apparently, he was just a heavy heavy advocate for it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100115155608/http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html