Yeah, I have my default sort set to “Subscribed” + “Scaled” (I want to primarily see the stuff that I follow, and I don’t want the small communities to be drowned out by the large ones). When I want to see what’s trending (big topics that are being talked about a lot) right now, I’ll switch to “All” + “Active”. It seems like “Hot” favors boosting trending groups rather than trending single posts.
From what I can see, “Hot” seems like a boosted “New” — it favors new posts, and ranks them by activity [1.1], whereas, from what I understand, “Active”, is more like the classic forum format where a comment bumps it back up to the top, but ranked also based on score [1.2].
Right so they both use time and they both use activity, but in my experience Hot prioritizes newness more while the top posts in Active tend to be slightly older, having had more time to make the rounds to where more people know about it, and then the activity comes from new people seeing it but also from notifications among people that already saw it - e.g. on this OP where we are doing that now.:-)
Yeah, I have my default sort set to “Subscribed” + “Scaled” (I want to primarily see the stuff that I follow, and I don’t want the small communities to be drowned out by the large ones). When I want to see what’s trending (big topics that are being talked about a lot) right now, I’ll switch to “All” + “Active”. It seems like “Hot” favors boosting trending groups rather than trending single posts.
Yeah I believe that is the purpose of Hot to begin with, though it’s so great that we have so many choices to pick from:-).
From what I can see, “Hot” seems like a boosted “New” — it favors new posts, and ranks them by activity [1.1], whereas, from what I understand, “Active”, is more like the classic forum format where a comment bumps it back up to the top, but ranked also based on score [1.2].
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Right so they both use time and they both use activity, but in my experience Hot prioritizes newness more while the top posts in Active tend to be slightly older, having had more time to make the rounds to where more people know about it, and then the activity comes from new people seeing it but also from notifications among people that already saw it - e.g. on this OP where we are doing that now.:-)