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submitted 1 year ago by Cougar@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that's also popular.

I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.

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[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Yes yes yes this should be the default!!! If new user refresh the page/app it is always the same stuff because of this "active"

Dev should use "hot" as default.

[-] drone515@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Here in the documentation it explains what the sort modes do. Active considers the time of the latest comment, and hot considers when the post was published instead.

[-] Cougar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that makes sense. My biggest concern here is that "Active" often shows posts that are several days old when new content is already available.

[-] milkpiss@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, active is interesting and may be useful in some situations (maybe if you want to keep up-to-date on new comments on big posts) but I feel like hot lets new posts show up more easily.

this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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