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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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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

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      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.

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

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

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        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!

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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

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    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.