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Right now I have my feed sorted by Hot. The sixth post in my feed is 19 days old, has zero comments, and one upvote. I'm struggling to work out what algorithm is deciding this is a Hot post

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorting by anything seems pretty buggy now - growing pains, I guess. I tend to sort by "New comments" and from time to time I'll get threads with zero comments on top of my feed...

I'm sure it's going to get better with time - right now we're all basically taking part in an extended load test for Lemmy and federation mechanisms :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I just use "Top in 6 hours" as a functional substitute for "Hot".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time I have seen a post with 0 comments at the top when sorting by New Comments, the post itself was just posted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True - which seems to be a bug to me, since that's what studying by New is supposed to show. I do find all the bugs kinda endearing though - reminds me of the internet of old and the time when reddit wax starting :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think it's a bug since it even says that sort method is meant to be like an old forum system. Which is to say, all new posts, or posts with new replies, get bumped to the top.