Not sure if this fits here, feel free to remove if not.
I’m sure the algorithm must be working as intended, but I always see a lot of rapid-fire posts under each other when browsing “Hot”. Is this normal or am I missing a setting?
Not sure if this fits here, feel free to remove if not.
I’m sure the algorithm must be working as intended, but I always see a lot of rapid-fire posts under each other when browsing “Hot”. Is this normal or am I missing a setting?
The formula for hot is something like
upvotes - downvotes - age^2Often, votes can’t keep up with the square on the age.
Old Reddit used the same formula without the square. That worked much better.
Would be cool if we could define our own custom algorithm, but I guess that might be taxing the servers to much if we could.
An exponent between 1 and 2 would be better than either.
I had a feeling it was something like that, this makes sense, thanks. Would you recommend a different sorting method?
I think instance admins can remove the square, but I’m not sure. Otherwise, given that Lemmy does not have that many users, I often stick with Hot anyways, and only look at active from time to time if I feel hot gets too boring. And if active is also boring, I do something else.
Something else? What’s that? :D
On my subscribed, I use new. I mostly subscribe to more niche communities, so its fairly quick.
On local, I tend to use top 12hrs, and on all, top for 6 hours.
Edit: note/more autocorrect.
TIL