Sorted by hot?

What algorithm is used to sort the posts on lemmy? This is the 10th entry on my home feed sorted as Hot. It’s a 2 years old post. Why it is “hot” now?

12 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world

8 Comments

phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com · 8 pts · 3y (4 replies)

a bug that was/will be fixed that mostly stoped posts from aging properly. it and some other nice things should be in the next release.

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I believe there will need an additional commit to increase the frequency of the age update (as I understand it, it's only once a week because the update query was too slow before this PR was merged)

phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

it does the hot update every 15 minutes now and it pretty much instantly nuked the ancient posts when I started running with it.

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Oh, nice! Can't wait for the next Lemmy release the.

phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com · 3 pts · 3y

if you're impatient like me you could just grab the latest code from git; there's another change in there that dramatically reduces the database size: my one person instance went from having a database dump taking 1.3 Gb to 250Mb.

BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 3y
Kururin@talk.kururin.tech · 3 pts · 3y

Lemmy’s algorithm is broken, it will take time to fix it. Just sort by new for now.