Why is sorting by “hot” showing me old, inactive posts? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tigerdactyl@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seems like hot was the best way to sort for a while, but lately it’s been filling up with inactive posts, some from years ago. Did something change?

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[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 16 points 1 year ago

They have been tuning the algorithm for that in the past releases, so may be related to that. Also, there is/was a bug where if you don't restart lemmy (on the server) regularly stuff will get stuck at the top of hot and/or active.

[-] tigerdactyl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

That makes sense, figured it’s some kind of growing pain. Wanted to make sure it wasn’t something on my end. I’ve only noticed if the past couple days.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind lemmy was a lot less active when this was initially configured. Growing pains.

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