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Lemmy's sorting options are so much better than Reddit's and allow long-term discussions (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit made it impossible to have long-term discussions like forums do. Posts would just fade into irrelevance after a day or so, whereas with forums new comments would bump the thread.

Lemmy has a sorting option just like forums:

"New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they receive a new reply analogous to the sorting of traditional forums"

And Lemmy also has the "Active" sorting method, which says:

"Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time"

so Active seems like a compromise between Hot like Reddit and the way forums do it by New Comments

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yea it'll be interesting to find the midway point for Active to be properly in between Hot and New Comments

but I think it'll take time to tune it, especially because right now we're getting a big wave of users and content

it also depends what you want, if you want to engage with comments then Active sorting can be great, but if you want to look at posts then Hot sorting is probably better