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PSA: Sort by New in smaller communities to avoid only seeing the same old posts. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by apfel@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I've noticed that most communities mainly show day-old posts with default sorting. Sorting by New or Hot helps with seeing newer posts. Kinda obvious, but I sure didn't realize until trying it out 😅

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[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

My problem is not with smaller communities, but the frontpage sucks in active, hot, or new sort. I've found New Comments to be a better sort, but I would much rather have the active and hot sorts to be fixed/tweaked to populate fresh posts on the front page. Do we have any ETA on any changes to those sorts?

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

sort frontpage by top of the day

[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

May be if we had a Top Hour, or Top 4 Hours or something like that.

[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That gets stale after a while because more people see the top posts, and the get voted even more and stay on the top.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Uncheck "Show read posts" in your settings, then once you up/downvote or actually go into a post, it will disappear for you.

[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I tried that, but that ended up hiding everything in my profile too. I was trying to find a post that I wanted to get back to, and had to disable that setting to see it.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, yes, that part is really annoying, I experienced that too. This setting should only be in effect in the feed, not everywhere. I'll create an Issue later if I don't forget it, I cannot see anything similar.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues