Maybe this is unpopular but I’m getting tired of opening lemmy and having to scroll past the same post that I have viewed already, half of the posts on the front page are 2 or 3 days old.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve been using the filters to go to New and Hot and other things but when someone comes to the front page they shouldn’t keep seeing the same posts for many hours or even days. I remember years ago on Reddit they altered the algorithm so that newer posts would show up more frequently on the front page and it was a massive improvement.
I turned off the show read in the account settings. I don’t see the articles I’m reading.
my go to method on reddit
iswas sorting by subscribed and top day. this way if I’ve seen everything already I know I’ve probably spent too much time scrolling and should check out individual communities if I’m trying to kill more time.Apparently in the algorithm time is a multiplier that increases the “gravity” but when the first post everyone saw here a few days ago has 1000 upvotes and everything else has 20-30~ even with the multiplier it stays on top. Those posts were an exception to the normal traffic that beat the algorithm. Maybe if the algorithm was based off of like “if x% above the average post karma for that instance then it gets a bigger time multiplier to increase its gravity over time”
But I think those posts getting upvoted hard-core beat the algorithm and it’s going to take forever for them to fall.
There is currently a bug in Lemmy 0.17.4 that causes post rank calculation to stop shortly after the server is restarted. It seems like lemmy.world is affected as well.
You can track this bug here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I pinged Ruud about this, he can restart the server for now for the ranks to refresh, but I am also working on investigating and fixing the root cause.
Well, that explains it. Hopefully it’s fixed soon, thanks!
Are you sorting by Active? That’s why. Use hot, or something.
Lemmy needs to make Hot the default. It’s a better experience for new users.
I am a bit split. I too find it a bit annoying to scroll past 80% of the posts. On the other hand, sometimes I see that there are new comments (which lemmy shows) under a post about an interesting topic.
I think the UI, instead of just bringing the posts up without explanation, should show you how many new comments the post received. It would be great for keeping tabs on a discussion, too.
The Reddit Enhancement Suite stores a cookie that remembers the number of comments when you visited a post. It’s a killer feature.
A more modern UI example:
I would not have understood the meaning of the +4 had i not seen the old UI first.
Hot and active feeds are currently broken for a lot of big instances. It should be fixed in the next Lemmy server version. For now use New or New Comments. Growing pains of being such new software and such a huge, sudden adoption.
I really don’t mind the growing pains … enjoy what we have now … there might come a time in ten years when we’ll look back on today as the best of this new social media.
I don’t mind it either, was just seeing people ask this question everywhere so trying to inform people
Not a problem my friend … I’m just happy to have a good conversation with others … I feel like a kid in a candy store and all the people are nice
Same! So far a much happier, more positive community than I saw on reddit.
What you want is sorting by new, in “subscribed” or even “all”
No I don’t as I don’t want to see all content I just want to see the good stuff, which is why I feel like the posts should age out after 24 hours so that when I get on lemmy the next day I have new quality content to view.
You could sort by “top day”, at least then you won’t see older posts.
Where is that at? Im blind lol but this sounds like what I want.
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It seems like a lot of people complain about not seeing content but then don’t contribute any content themselves. Like, posts are old because there’s little new content, so maybe everyone can help contribute to communities. Content doesn’t miraculously appear.
There’s plenty of new content if you sort by new. This isn’t a content issue; it’s a bug. But go off I guess.
Like, posts are old because there’s little new content
Yeah, but you could be underestimating the effect of the Active sorting bumping old posts, which leads to a few posts threads rising over and over. Perhaps there’s more eagerness to make new threads than you can see, because most of those new threads don’t spark the fire of discussion and get quickly buried.
Active sorting is more like 4chan, Hot sorting is like Reddit or HN.
You might wanna read up on the algorithm Lemmy uses. Specifically this part:
- Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
- Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
If you’re sorting by Active, that means those posts you’re seeing are pretty, well, active even if they’re a couple days old.
I used to hide on upvote / downvote, would be cool if Lemmy adds this as an option too
That is a feature available in your settings.
Awesome! Where in settings is it? I can only see “hide on read”
The checkbox is checked by default so uncheck “show read posts”
Ah, I thought you meant a setting to hide a post after a upvote or downvote. This setting is for hiding read posts, so not quite what I meant. Thanks anyway!
Oh right but should have added that upvoting or downvoting a post counts as reading it. I wish there was a “mark as read” button but this should still do what you want I think
Just tried it and you’re right! Thanks!
