Not sure what’s happening with the ranking algorithm, but it seems like the default main page is still displaying the same set of popular posts from a few days ago.
But if you switch to sorting by “Top Day,” it’ll show fresh popular posts from the past day.
Just started doing this thank you!!!
For me “Hot” suddenly started showing fresh posts again after 3 days of stagnation. Nevertheless sorting by “top day” is a genius idea that I’m definitely going to use, thx for the tip!
Can’t wait for Lemmy 0.18!
What is in that release?
The fix for the hot not updating bug
There’s a bug with the hot sorting algorithm. Basically the process that handles sorting the feed will crash after a few hours. (At least, that’s what I’ve been told is the issue)
Your server admin can restart the lemmy process every once in a while as a bandaid until next update.
Any news on if this will be fixed soon?
I’m glad to hear the issue with the Hot algorithm is a bug, but the Active feed seems to be almost completely static as well and has been that way for a while. It’s been all the same old posts basically the entire time I’ve been on Lemmy. Hot was the escape hatch for me until it stopped working as well, but I feel something needs to be adjusted with Active too in addition to fixing Hot. Especially since Active is the default.
