What algorithm is used to sort the posts on lemmy? This is the 10th entry on my home feed sorted as Hot. It’s a 2 years old post. Why it is “hot” now?
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I believe there will need an additional commit to increase the frequency of the age update (as I understand it, it’s only once a week because the update query was too slow before this PR was merged)
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it does the hot update every 15 minutes now and it pretty much instantly nuked the ancient posts when I started running with it.
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if you’re impatient like me you could just grab the latest code from git; there’s another change in there that dramatically reduces the database size: my one person instance went from having a database dump taking 1.3 Gb to 250Mb.
