I suspect the meaning is obvious and I’m just being a silly goose, but I’ve just been sort of bouncing around among them, since I’m not quite sure of the difference.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    89·
    1 year ago
    • Active: popular recent posts that people still engage in by posting comments
    • Hot: popular recent posts but cares more about rating than comments
    • Top X: Top rated posts in the last X hours/days
    • Rannoch@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Thank you!!! That makes sense - so just checking, Top X is like “Hot”, but over a certain time period instead of “recent”? (In that it cares about rating instead of how many comments are being posted?)

      Seems like bouncing between Active and Hot is still a good thing to do then maybe. To see whatever people are discussing as well as whatever the most upvoted stuff is.

      • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Hot uses an algorithm that cares a little about comment count, but top doesn’t care about comments at all. Top just shows you the highest rated posts in order that have been posted within that time frame and that’s it.

  • binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.shEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Related question: is “Hot” super buggy? I am on 0.18.0, but I still often see really really really old posts (1 year old, 2 years old) sprinkled in with new stuff, and I often see clusters of 5-10 posts of a single community grouped together.

    I have to pay extra attention to the post age because of this.

    • substill@vlemmy.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m not sure what the algorithm is taking into account in deciding “hot.” Seems it is “recent views but only because the formula fed this old stuff to the last few rounds, too.”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    Active: Ranks on votes and comment activity, with the time of the last comment being an important factor.

    Hot: Ranks on votes and comments, but just uses the timestamp of the post without the comments time affecting it.

    Top: Just the highest score of the selected time period.

    New Comments: (my favorite) is like an old forum, where the top post is the one that received the newest comment.