I’ve noticed that most communities mainly show day-old posts with default sorting. Sorting by New or Hot helps with seeing newer posts. Kinda obvious, but I sure didn’t realize until trying it out 😅
I sort by most popular for the last day. Lets me browse what’s popular while keeping my feed fresh.
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I like Top/Day and New Comments
New comments is nice. A good mix of new posts and active posts.
but isn’t top day SUPER broken for you? like - it’s absolutely unusable for me. when i try it gets instantly flooded with new posts such that i often can’t scroll fast enough to keep my position. like … i’m TRYING to use lemmy and really want to but i find the feed so utterly frustrating and no one else seems to have this problem except the friends that aren’t using lemmy but have checked for me. tried various browsers… really struggling with this as i can’t understand how people manage or the how the devs could let this showstopper continue.
Hmmm, now that I think about it I’ve only tried in Jerboa. I’ll check in the Web browser and report back.
Edit: not seeing any issues like that, how interesting.
it’s most noticable when using the all filter also, which I do like. I think lots of folks are using local or subscribed which doesn’t highlight the issue quite so much.
I’ve been doing this, and have been finding it to be a much more enjoyable experience.
Reddit was 1000s of posts a minute, while Lemmy is more like 5 posts a minute if that.
In a way I like it more, feels much more engaging.
I have set my defaults to Subscribed & NewComments in my account settings, it defaults to that now in both the desktop and Jerboa app.
I sort by most popular for the last day. Lets me browse what’s popular while keeping my feed fresh.
Hot is broken atm. There’s an edge case that can happen that stops the hot_rank value decreasing, meaning it never leaves the first page.
Gonna be fixed in 0.18, but yeah, use New until then.
I’ve been doing All/Hot as my default view and it seems to refresh often enough, not sure why I’m not having the same problem as others
Could be that with less users on lemmy.one, there’s less people using the search for specific posts. The edge case triggers when a user does that. The hot_rank column functions normally if nobody searches for posts.
Yeah honestly I picked it randomly and had been regretting not going with a bigger instance, but now I’m glad I went with it because I can still read both Beehaw and Lemmy.world so I’m not really caught up in that whole drama. Seems that there are some advantages to being on a smaller instance
I can’t wait to see all the fixes in 0.18 implemented, it’s going to be huge. 1.0, here we come!
Aha. I was wondering why my All/Hot front page today is still the exact same as yesterday.
They should tighten the time bounds or make it customisable or dynamic based on the community activity too.
48 hours worked when Lemmy was small, but now there are a lot more posts.
What exactly does PSA mean? I read it a lot in the last months…
PSA = Public Service Announcement
ah, thanks
I’ve been going on all and sorting by new. Finding a lot of communities that way too.
I’ve been using top:day and hot for /all
I discovered top and think top/day is good for any of the subscriptions, local or all. At least compared to active/hot
New is a good policy for any where, really.
It will take some time before I stop trying to refresh the front page habitually, but I like the variety of posts I’ve seen fly by on KBIN the past days. Had to filter out some german pages though.
Yeah, what was with that? No other communities in different languages sneaking through, but I’ve blocked several German ones now.
Also sort by new comments to get the most active/most popular posts
NewComments has been the best experience for me.
Yeah great tip, it took a while to occur to me too!
Also need more top sorts:
12 hours, 6, 3, 1
