I am with OP but I think I need to figure out how to sort. And I can’t expect Lemmy to constantly be as refreshed as reddit, yet.
I guess so - maybe ‘new’ should be the initial setting…
I think until a community reaches a certain size, “new” should just be the default initial setting for users maybe? Idk
When I set my front page to “All” and “Hot”, it constantly adds new posts to the top of the lists and shuffles everything down. I just visited the page and it updated the list three times in about five seconds. Is there a way to make it not do that?
It’s a bug that should be fixed soon. Luckily it doesn’t happen in the android app I’m using, Jerboa.
Yep that’s what I use. Good app. I might try and contribute later.
I notice it’s been really stagnant today, was a lot more active the last two days. Is everyone gone back to reddit??
Some people have, so it’ll be a little slower, but there appears to be a fairly critical mass of users here now. It’s now a question of actually creating active communities to start luring people away.
Need to start proselytizing lol
Not me. Deleted RIF off my phone today. Haven’t deleted my 14-yo account or any of my throwaways even.
Don’t worry, its a bug. “Hot” sorting has freezed. Just use new and you will see just how active everything is.
Lol I sorted new two days ago and almost broke my thumb blocking tentacle porn communities ahahah!
Hahahahahah. Try blocking nsfw content first!
Sadly sorting on new also has its issues with the auto updates and content getting pushed down automatically. I’m hoping that gets fixed soon.
Also slated for next release.
Is the default sort different depending on your instance? Like you’re on lemmy.world, but I’m on reddthat.com. Are they the same out of the box, or is there differences?
They really should set All - Hot (or Top Day) as default instead of Local.
No matter what I set, all my posts are old
I just started trying out changing the setting “show read post” to unchecked in my settings to hide read post. Now I don’t need to see same old stuff. It is great! It is like reading emails now 😂
I use the app so I have to refresh every time to hide tho but I don’t think that will be a thing for web users.
Difficult to say why it doesn’t work for you. What I get is 10h, 2h, 2h, 1h, 4h for first 5 posts. I am using All Hot.
https://lemm.ee/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1
EDIT: I checked your lemmy.world instance with the same settings https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/1 and indeed all posts seem to be old. It’s something to do with your instance maybe. I suggest meanwhile you use All Top Day instead. This will ensure you get top posts of the past 24h.
Switch to all/hot. The default is local
I think OP is getting at the point that maybe the default shouldn’t be local. I set mine to subscribed, but until a server is widely used, maybe the default should be all. It’s more of a server admin thing than a software default thing, IMO, though.
Even after a server is widely used, the default should be all.
That’s the whole point of federation. That’s what everybody is saying. That’s even what join-lemmy promotes; you see it all because of federation.
“Local” should be the most niche rarely used setting ever.
Hmm, I don’t know it depends on the context. I am on startrek.website and for that community with a lot of new star trek fans coming in who don’t necessarily know much about federation and the fediverse I think having the default be local to just star trek content makes way more sense. For other communities not built around a specific fanbase having the default be all makes way more sense. It just depends I think.
Come to think of it, we should rename “all” to “UFP” lol
Subscribed should be the default if you have any subscriptions i.e. are logged in.
I tend to agree this is why I wrote a new users guide and pinned it on my instance which suggests exactly this
im vibing in new
Yea this is how I’m doing it, and it’s great. Plus I get real time notifications on new communities. I used reddit by new too, but here seems to be genuinely more engaged.
#newisalwaysbetter
Makes you think about how many posts on Reddit are just not accounts pushing posts
I was getting disillusioned because of the bot reposts on reddit.
They did some changes to the sort last night. I was thinking the same. This seems a little slower today for HOT.
Love this idea. I definitely treat most content lists as an inbox; if I’ve interacted with it, archive it somewhere unobtrusive in case I need to refer to it later.
@KillaBeez I think we are to used to reddit. You can always sort by new and comments sorting by comments and is interesting.
This is how I used reddit anyway and I’m having a great time here so far
Sorting by “new comments” can be a nice one if you’re looking for discussions, I’m finding.
Yes, you summed up what was bothering me about this site. Intended or not, it’s giving the impression of a ghost town outside of a few threads.
You can save your sort preference in settings.
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There is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in “hot” and “active” showing stale posts.
I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again, but the proper fix will come in the next release of Lemmy.
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The most crucial fix has already been merged and should be included in the 0.18 release of Lemmy!
I poked around to see which bugs are being worked on and whatnot on lemmy-ui’s github, but I couldn’t find the release schedule (new to open source projects like this).
Is there a way to get a sense of when a new version drop will be applied outside of being an actual contributor or is that all hidden/just in the minds of the maintainers?
AFAIK there is no release schedule as such, it’s more a situation of it’ll be released no sooner or later than when it’s ready for release 😃
I know it can be frustrating to hear that as a user, but it really is better than promising a release date, and then either failing to deliver on time, or delivering something which you know is not really ready.
I know it can be frustrating to hear that as a user
Not at all. I get it completely. I do some programming for my 9-5 and have our releases and stuff scheduled in our Jira, but that’s a private dev team, not a open source project like this and it doesn’t use github/gitlab for anything.
Expectation management and getting people to understand why we didn’t deploy at the specified time is a huge annoyance, lol.
You don’t use version control at work?
Yeah, just not git based.
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@sunaurus @lemmyworld Glad to hear. I have accounts on lemmy and Mastodon and some times have to use lemmy web. Would be nice to see new posts.
Thanks for your work debugging and fixing this for everyone.
How many people are working on Lemmy?
There are two maintainers, but it’s open source, so dozens of others have contributed over the years (and a lot of new contributors have joined in the current month - myself included!)
I was halfway through reading this when I immediately thought “is the ‘solution’ just regularly restarting the server?” lol
I love you
Welcome to Costco
Hey there, I appreciate all the work you guys are all doing to keep this going. We see you and thank you.
I’ve been sorting by ‘Hot’ recently, its a little more chaotic but it’s definitely a fresher experience. Also I just found out you can hide read posts! Which has been a huge game changer.
you can hide read posts
You CAN?!? I MUST see this.
Under your user settings on desktop, there’s a “Show read posts” checkbox. I just unchecked it like 5 minutes ago but it seems to be working.
Does this completely hide read posts or is there a way to see them again without going back to the settings? I’ll try it out when I get back to my desktop tho, thanks for pointing it out!
From what I’ve seen the read posts just disappear unless you check the box again. Let me know if you find something different!
I’d love this if it were a toggle on the UI instead of being buried in the settings.
You’re an angel among mortals. My OCD wants to say thank you too.
Sort by new, trending, or hot to get a different list. I’ve just been looking at communities to subscribe to
