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Is it just me or does filtering by "Hot" seemingly give better results than "Active"? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Cougar@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that's also popular.

I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.

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[โ€“] drone515@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in the documentation it explains what the sort modes do. Active considers the time of the latest comment, and hot considers when the post was published instead.

[โ€“] Cougar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that makes sense. My biggest concern here is that "Active" often shows posts that are several days old when new content is already available.