Is lemmy working on better default sort options than “hot” and “active”? - eviltoast

I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen.

I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.

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    1 year ago

    So basically, yes this has been discussed a lot and there are various options for fixing it floating around. A few weeks ago there were all kinds of urgent gamebreaking bugs in the software that needed patching up, but hopefully things like sort algorithm improvements will have their time to shine soon.

    As far as what the conversation looks like, here’s a link to all the currently open Github issues searched for “sort”. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort Some of them will be more relevant and have more discussion than others, since people tend to make a lot of duplicates, but it should give you an idea of the current thinking.