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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] MicroWave 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any news on if this will be fixed soon?

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Should be with the 0.18 update, which is a pretty big one that will fix some other things too. I don't think it will be that long but I don't want to go in the admin group chat going "wen release" I know how annoying that is especially for a volunteer project.

[โ€“] chris2112 11 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

You can follow the issue directly on Github for updates; seems its being actively worked now right now

[โ€“] neontetra 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Xylinna 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bounce between top day and new which seems to help.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually just bounce a ball

[โ€“] DoubleCore 3 points 1 year ago

I am a simple bouncer. I see bouncing I upvote

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Switching to Top Day just gave me a slew of 1 upvote no comment posts, as if I has switched to New.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ilikemoney 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe y'all start a community of cheese loving turtles... Call it cheetles,or maybe turteese

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Worked for me using [all]

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i've been struggling with this problem and don't know what to do - but at least it sounds like it's not just me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine ended up being that someone already took my username. They aren't using it by the looks of it, though. :\

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

New comments also sometimes works. I think the hot algorithm has a known bug where the posts don't lose ranking over time

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've noticed the sorting algorithm on Kbin is much better than Lemmy's. Much more churn in the posts when I refresh.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@zalack @MicroWave I went to kbin.social today to see what the fuss is all about. Looks just like reddit lol. And it's so clean

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Lol, the current situation is so messed that I can't tell if "it looks just like Reddit" is praise or criticism haha.

But yeah, I love it!

[โ€“] Beardliest 12 points 1 year ago

That is for this! I was sorting by new and this is much better to see the active posts of the day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait for Lemmy 0.18!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The fix for the hot not updating bug

[โ€“] derf82 9 points 1 year ago

I gather there is a bug in the code for what generates the "Hot" sort and that it only resets when the server is restarted. I believe there is already a fix on GitHub, but person that runs the instance needs to implement it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hot and active sorting are buggen in version 0.17.4

[โ€“] Gerryflap 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[โ€“] maniajack 8 points 1 year ago

Good tip, thanks. I think it would also be nice for people to sort by New and up/down vote to push more stuff to the Top lists.

[โ€“] KeatonPotatoes 6 points 1 year ago

Just started doing this thank you!!!

[โ€“] gator 4 points 1 year ago

Top of day works, but everytime i select all instead ot local it reverts back to local. Rip.

[โ€“] bangover 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget that on Jerboa at least, there is an option to hide post you've already read. Makes it a bit easier to sift through all the content.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great tip! Works very nice in Jerboa.