Requirements

• [x] Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support
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Is your proposal related to a problem?

When I open Lemmy as an average user, I want to see posts that:

• have active discussions
• are from within the last day
• are highly upvoted

However, the Hot sort type shows me extremely recent posts with few votes or comments, and Active mostly shows me posts that are between one and two days old.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Create additional sort types:

• Active Six Hours
• Active Twelve Hours
• Active Day
• Active Two Days

With Active Six Hours, the latest comment time no longer updates after six hours past the post published time. With Active Twelve Hours, the latest comment time no longer updates past twelve hours after the post published time, and so on an so forth.

Active Two Days would be the current default behavior of the Active sorting algorithm.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

• Set the default sorting algorithm to Hot
• Adjust the Gravity value until the average age of posts on the front page of lemmy.ml is twelve hours.

Additional context

Posts on the topic:

• YSK: Feel like you only see the same 2-day old content? At least on lemmy.world, you can change your homepage’s default sorting type & scope to “Hot” and “All”
• FYI sort by “Top Day” if you’re tired of seeing the same top posts from 2-3 days ago