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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* (last edited 1 year ago) by MonkCanatella@lemmy.world to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/192630

I've been noticing myself that sorting by active or hot just gives me days old posts, so I've been sorting by new but it's not a great experience. this should be a pretty good middle ground.

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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[-] Tot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Change the Sort Type in your account settings. Much better than changing it manually every time you visit.

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I've been going to new, and then going to the second page to avoid post bursts. I just refresh when I want new stuff. It's worked pretty well for me so far. Hopefully 0.18 is out soon and fixes the bursting and hot/active algorithm issues

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

Was going to say, be brave, sort new. Actually quite a lot going on which is nice to see.

[-] bayesianbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I thought I was doing something wrong but I guess this is a common issue then. Bad timing to have such a weird user experience just when we're having an influx of new users, who will surely get frustrated.

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I wasn't around then, but apparently the functionality that led to bursting was added when Lemmy was much smaller, so it would just update with 1 or 2 new posts at a time since there were so few. When it ballooned it pretty much broke that unfortunately.