Why does the frontpage of kbin.social work so much better than any other server?
When I visit kbin.social, I see new posts regularly. On other servers posts stay on the frontpage for multiple days. This is also true if I switch their sorting to "hot". So that is probably not the difference.
I've seen like 5 different posts about this already, I guess I'll reply to this one too xD
Lemmy "Hot" ranking is currently kinda broken. There's an edge case that stops the hot_rank column from decreasing, meaning the post never goes off the front page. Will be fixed in 0.18.
More in-depth answer: Currently there's no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that's the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that's done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.
Current estimations I've seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.
The websockets work has been merged. I'm using it on my instance now, but there's no release yet. It's been really stable for me so far, so I'm hoping there aren't major issues and they can push it out soon.
You can see the discussion about this here, but the short version is that it's not scalable, hits apps & browsers like a truck, memory leaks, and live updates cause feed reshuffling which is really annoying