Lemmy feeding 4 & 5 day old content on the front page.
The way in which the Active and Hot filtering has been stale for days on end has been bugging me so much since I started using Lemmy. I've been scrolling past these 3 posts in that exact order every day since they first appeared 4 days ago. Is there any way to fix this?
Reposting my comment from another thread to spread awareness:
There is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in “hot” and "active" showing stale posts.
I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again, but the proper fix will come in the next release of Lemmy.
This must be why lemmy.world has so much more recent posts than sh.it.justworks, I was really let down by Lemmy while I was there but I'm finally seeing activity after switching to lemmy.world
A few hours ago a fix was merged for this problem. The cause is that when a post from another server was added to the database the rank was not calculated correctly. It should fix itself after a week but I just did a recalculation of of the ranks manually and now hot is finally usable. With version 1.18.0 it should be resolved for good.
The time weighting is a little funky for Active and Hot. I would say it is understandable if you consider that until a couple weeks ago, Lemmy had far less frequent posts.
I've been finding Top-Day to be better for getting a front page type experience.
I had this problem on jerboa as well. Turns out if you select active instead of top day you get top day. It seems like it's buggy but that's what worked for me.
Don't filter by those - filter by new, or new comments.
I constantly filter by different sorts all the time - do a round of refreshes with each. It might take a bit of scrolling sometimes to get to the juicy stuff.
Unfortunately yes. You have to temporarily turn it off if you want to view your own stuff. Interestingly exactly the same way it was on Reddit for more than a decade until they fixed it.
It's a known bug which should get fixed next release. Try bugging your admin to restart the lemmy server though, that fixes it for a little bit. I restart mine every few hours.
With the current amount of users I find that sorting by new seems to be the best option. It doesn't take too long to catch up even if you're browsing "all"