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New, Trending
The ‘New’ and ‘Trending’ feeds display posts in pretty much the same order.
Sorting by trending posts doesn’t seem to work as intended.
It doesn’t matter whether I access them on the homepage, in the accounts section or in the forums.
I’ve now compared the posts.
In the forums, there are only two posts that differ between the ‘New’ and ‘Hot’ sections.
On the homepage, all the posts are the same.
I compared the first twenty posts in each section.
But perhaps it’s also because I’ve only been on this instance since yesterday.
I follow 272 accounts, including forums.
It's weird, but yeah, can you check again in a couple of days? If it's still like this, I will dig deeper. Please report back!
To bring another data point to the issue the OP is bringing (personally I don't use the "Hot" order, I'm accustomed with using chronological ordering; just helping the OP with additional data point from a slightly older account to the glitch they're observing): to me, "Hot" correctly sorts the entries by the number of upvotes... Except it only does so for the items that were fetched for the current scrolling page, which is 15 entries. When the user scrolls down to the end of the list, Catodon fetches another 15 entries, but these will be sorted independently from the previous entries, so it gets a stairway-like effect when it comes to upvote counting across entries.
It seems to be just the "hot" order, though, and maybe the "Active" (I didn't test the "Active", it likely experiences the same phenomenon given it probably does chunked fetching too). The "new" sorting order is working as intended.
I will look into what you're reporting for Hot - the rating should be for all posts from the last 3 days. Perhaps what happens might be that in the meantime some ratings changed, since some time has passed. Active shouldn't have the same issue in any case - it's sorting by last reply. Worst that could happen should be to lose a post that went from say 30th position to the 1st because of a new reply while you're scrolling.
@radio4392 @dsilverz please refresh the page and try it again. When we implemented this we just adopted Lemmy's algorithm, because why reinvent the wheel, but as it seems in practice it was boosting newer posts much. So I have adjusted it on Catodon based on your feedback. Should be better now.
BTW, replies count doesn't matter now, but I will further tune it in the next release (after 26.10.0) and it will also be affected by the replies number. I didn't want to make a bigger change now since we're already in the RC phase for 26.10.0.
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Can't reproduce this, for me "New" and "Hot" give significantly different results. The algorithm for Hot does promote newer posts though, so if you have a small posts pool (don't follow many users or forums), then I can see why it might look like that. If you go to Forums>All>All forums and switch between New and Hot, you should get different results.