I’ve found that “Hot” often gives me posts I have seen days before, same with “Most Comments”. So far I’ve found that “Top Day” is best, but then I lose a lot of posts from my smaller communities

How do you sort your Lemmy instance? Any tips I’m missing?

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    New and top.

    Hot and Active are bugged in the current version, they are supposed to update a lot more frequently than they currently do.

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      I also prefer “New” and “Top Day”, but for different community lists:

      • Local + New for what’s going on around lemmy.ca communities
      • Subscribed + Top Day for the wider Fediverse communities I’m subbed to as a sort of “daily digest”
    • TeaEarlGrayHotOP
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      2 years ago

      That’s very good to know, thanks!! Guess I’ll keep my eye out for version 18 (iirc)!

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, you know something is wrong when All + Hot is full of posts from 6 days ago.

      EDIT: I don’t know if there was a server update last night, but Hot and Active are giving me much fresher results now.

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    2 years ago

    So far, I’m a fan of “Newest Comments”. Any popular threads tend to bubble up there, but you get a healthy dose of new content as well.

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    Top Day and New Comments are the most useful to me. I think this will probably change as lemmy grows, though.

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    I usually search by new and filter by subscriptions. It moves slow enough to keep track of things as they appear.

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    Yeah, discovery is super frustrating right now. Would love to see a hide feature for both posts and categories. Find a lot of great categories from browsing new, but the majority I would be happy to never see again.

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    I have my default set to New Comments, but I’ll manually switch to Top Day and regular New when settling in for a browse.