• Grey Cat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From the Docs link available at the bottom right of any lemmy page, in “4. Votes and Ranking” :

    • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
    • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published
      • Scooter411@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Both active and hot show me posts from 2 days ago… I have to sort by new to browse anything remotely up to date. I think they need to adjust their algorithm.

        • King@vlemmy.net
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          1 year ago

          I remember reading an issue where the scheduled task to update hot and active was breaking shortly after reboot. So those lists were getting frozen in time, until the next reboot.

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            1 year ago

            Correct, it’s currently a bug in Lemmy. Your local instance/server will need to be restarted periodically to keep active and hot updating until it’s fixed.