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FYI sort by "Top Day" if you're tired of seeing the same top posts from 2-3 days ago (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Not sure what's happening with the ranking algorithm, but it seems like the default main page is still displaying the same set of popular posts from a few days ago.

But if you switch to sorting by "Top Day," it'll show fresh popular posts from the past day.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a bug with the hot sorting algorithm. Basically the process that handles sorting the feed will crash after a few hours. (At least, that's what I've been told is the issue)

Your server admin can restart the lemmy process every once in a while as a bandaid until next update.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Any news on if this will be fixed soon?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

Should be with the 0.18 update, which is a pretty big one that will fix some other things too. I don't think it will be that long but I don't want to go in the admin group chat going "wen release" I know how annoying that is especially for a volunteer project.

[-] chris2112@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

You can follow the issue directly on Github for updates; seems its being actively worked now right now

[-] neontetra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm glad to hear the issue with the Hot algorithm is a bug, but the Active feed seems to be almost completely static as well and has been that way for a while. It's been all the same old posts basically the entire time I've been on Lemmy. Hot was the escape hatch for me until it stopped working as well, but I feel something needs to be adjusted with Active too in addition to fixing Hot. Especially since Active is the default.