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difference between "hot" and "active"? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by tev@pawb.social to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

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i saw those in the settings for post sorting, and was wondering what they even do lol

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published”

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[–] JoeClu@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I like about the fediverse. I asked a similar question on Reddit a long time ago. Got a snarky comment "it is what it sounds like" and nothing else.

Thanks for answering.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Glad I could help. Not too long ago I was thinking about the same question myself, so looking up the answer a second time was fairly easy.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will hot be improved in the future? It keep showing new dead posts on my end.

[–] Reborn2966@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there was a bug in hot that showed years old posts. should be fixed in the latest versions.

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I also want to know. I notice "hot" seems almost completely useless right now. A lot of posts with hardly any upvotes or comments get counted as "hot". Yet, I believe it's the default sort, which is a shame.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has almost nothing to do with the Connect app. It is the way Lemmy server calculates the sorting of posts for the feed

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Eh, it's still good to know.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not totally sure but I think active is based on the rate of comments and hot is based on the rate of upvotes + random sprinkling of years old stuff.

[–] BiggggDaddy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which one is better to find new communities?

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You can also go to About Instance and View Communities to see a list of communities

[–] tev@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

for finding communities, you might want to try this