Right now I have my feed sorted by Hot. The sixth post in my feed is 19 days old, has zero comments, and one upvote. I’m struggling to work out what algorithm is deciding this is a Hot post

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There is a bug with hot sorting at the moment: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3428

If you want to know how it’s supposed to work, see: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

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The answers always in the GitHub lol, but I haven’t been here long and I was sure something was off with the sorting but assumed it was due to server issues or low on the fix list.

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Sorting by anything seems pretty buggy now - growing pains, I guess. I tend to sort by “New comments” and from time to time I’ll get threads with zero comments on top of my feed…

I’m sure it’s going to get better with time - right now we’re all basically taking part in an extended load test for Lemmy and federation mechanisms :)

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Every time I have seen a post with 0 comments at the top when sorting by New Comments, the post itself was just posted.

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True - which seems to be a bug to me, since that’s what studying by New is supposed to show. I do find all the bugs kinda endearing though - reminds me of the internet of old and the time when reddit wax starting :)

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I don’t think it’s a bug since it even says that sort method is meant to be like an old forum system. Which is to say, all new posts, or posts with new replies, get bumped to the top.

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I just use “Top in 6 hours” as a functional substitute for “Hot”.

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If Lemmy is turned on by it.

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I got burned by it.

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From what I understand, hot is supposed to be like Reddit where they show up posts that are gaining traction in the day.

But yeah it’s pretty buggy right now, been seeing a lot of old posts too

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Funny that the first post I saw when sorting by Hot is a post asking what hot sorting is

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That’s the secret. It sorts all threads so that the ones about hot things are first.

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