The way in which the Active and Hot filtering has been stale for days on end has been bugging me so much since I started using Lemmy. I’ve been scrolling past these 3 posts in that exact order every day since they first appeared 4 days ago. Is there any way to fix this?
Reposting my comment from another thread to spread awareness:
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.
Love it. This is an example of what decentralized means.
Everyone working together towards a common goal.
FOSS devs tackling bugs faster than AAA ad-whore devs 😂
Thanks for your work
How often are new releases made?
Releases can be found here:
Whenever the devs are taking a break from deleting Tiananmen images from lemmygrad.ml
Than you for your work!
Just registered on Lemm.ee–and can’t log in. Just get a spinner. I’ll try again in a few hours.
Hey! Did you manage to verify your e-mail? Unverified e-mails seem to be the most common cause in this situation.
Active is more like forums, where the comments are taken into account. So new comments push it back up towards the top.
Hot seems bugged, for me, it mostly shows me new posts but I know for others it’s showing older ones.
On smaller instances you can just use new, or Top Day
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A few hours ago a fix was merged for this problem. The cause is that when a post from another server was added to the database the rank was not calculated correctly. It should fix itself after a week but I just did a recalculation of of the ranks manually and now hot is finally usable. With version 1.18.0 it should be resolved for good.
The time weighting is a little funky for Active and Hot. I would say it is understandable if you consider that until a couple weeks ago, Lemmy had far less frequent posts.
I’ve been finding Top-Day to be better for getting a front page type experience.
Top-Day is the way.
I would like to see them add what kbin does with 3,6,12,etc hour options for top, active, and hot
Only way I’ve found is to go into settings and turn off “show read posts”.
Which also seems to hide one owns posts/comments, even in the profile view - at least that was the case for me
Don’t filter by those - filter by new, or new comments.
I constantly filter by different sorts all the time - do a round of refreshes with each. It might take a bit of scrolling sometimes to get to the juicy stuff.
With the current amount of users I find that sorting by new seems to be the best option. It doesn’t take too long to catch up even if you’re browsing “all”
Sort by new or top
choose ‘Top day’ in the settings, then it won’t happen again
I switched to Top Day on jerboa and now everytime I reopen the app it switches back to “Old”
Was it updated in your profile settings? I set mine there and its hasn’t reverted back since.
It’s a known bug which should get fixed next release. Try bugging your admin to restart the lemmy server though, that fixes it for a little bit. I restart mine every few hours.
This is a known issue in the backend that should be fixed soon: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
All you have to do is switch to new or anything other than default, but yes, having default be 4d old content doesn’t look good.
I have had this issue. perhaps turning off read posts will help. I will try it
I usually filter by Top Day to avoid this.
It would be great if I can mix Active and Hot feeds in a 50/50% way. That would be the perfect mix of trending and new content.
