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.
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.
Any news on if this will be fixed soon?
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.
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
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.
I bounce between top day and new which seems to help.
I usually just bounce a ball
I am a simple bouncer. I see bouncing I upvote
Switching to Top Day just gave me a slew of 1 upvote no comment posts, as if I has switched to New.
I like cheese
i like turtles
I like cereal! (btw, you’re old as fuck if you get this reference)
Maybe y’all start a community of cheese loving turtles… Call it cheetles,or maybe turteese
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.
Mine ended up being that someone already took my username. They aren’t using it by the looks of it, though. :\
Worked for me using [all]
I’ve noticed the sorting algorithm on Kbin is much better than Lemmy’s. Much more churn in the posts when I refresh.
@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
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!
That is for this! I was sorting by new and this is much better to see the active posts of the day.
New comments also sometimes works. I think the hot algorithm has a known bug where the posts don’t lose ranking over time
Can’t wait for Lemmy 0.18!
What is in that release?
The fix for the hot not updating bug
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.
Hot and active sorting are buggen in version 0.17.4
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.
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!
Just started doing this thank you!!!
Top of day works, but everytime i select all instead ot local it reverts back to local. Rip.
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.
Great tip! Works very nice in Jerboa.
