Sorting by Scaled is awesome
Sorting by Scaled is awesome
I only just noticed this option for sorting my feed. I do have a reasonably curated selection of large and small and using “scaled” gives the results I would expect across them all.
Give it a go.
This sort was introduced in Lemmy 0.19:
A new scaled sort option has been added. This sort is identical to the Hot sort, but also takes into account the number of each community’s active monthly users, and so helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top.
71ReplyThis is a lemmy thing not a voyager thing btw
42ReplyThanks. I find the terms too vague. It isn't obvious what Active vs Hot vs Scaled are. I am going to give it a try.
29ReplyMy guess from the names:
Hot - Received a lot of upvotes
Active - Lots of comments
Scaled - Hot but takes into account smaller posts and communities
16ReplyHow is hot different from top?
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Here's the page that explains all the sorting options: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
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I tried it and was not entirely happy with it.
I usually stick to New on my list of communities and it's been good.
9ReplyReddit had sort by rising, which I loved. This is probably the equivalent of that.
7ReplyTop past 6 hours feels like rising to me, probably because of the small size of Lemmy.
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I thought that was for finding reptiles?
6ReplyShhh, don't be scaled, you'll ok.
5ReplyOh cool, this is an option in Thunder now, I didn't notice before
4ReplyIt's in Sync as well. I don't know why I always read complaints about sync not being updated frequently.
0ReplyYeah but the option appeared in sync only after around 3 months after the release of Lemmy 0.19
2ReplyYou read those because the dev has a tendency to leave for months at a time and returning when it's really bad to get a few updates up.
2ReplyBecause the dev disappears for months at a time. That's said often enough that it's clearly true.
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funny how its the only sort item that doesn't have a capital letter as its first character
-5ReplyWhat ? It does. Edit: I meant it does start with capital.
1Replyfunny that 4 people (as of this) have downvoted me for pointing that out.
I just looked again, controversial appears to be lower case in some screens and upper case in others.
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