Voyager @lemmy.world Docus @lemmy.world 8mo ago

How does sort by hot work?

When sorting by hot, I get posts with 1 upvote and no comments near the top. And it is above a post from the same community (nieuws) that has 2 upvotes. Seems to be broken.

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It’s calculated using the current score (up/down votes) in combination with how new it is.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/migrations/2023-10-23-184941_hot_rank_greatest_fix/up.sql
- Thanks. Not done the maths (yet) but that seems heavily biased towards new posts
  
  Yep, intentionally so. When someone asks about "the hottest fashions," they don't care about what was hot then years ago, they mean what's hot right now. So it's recent posts that are getting a lot of positive attention.

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