I kinda feel like active should be like top with a drop down. So most active in the last hour, 6 hours, 12hours, day, week, month, year. Seems to me top and active are basically the same but top is more like highest rated and active is like most commented. Both are essentially a metric that changes based on the amount of time taken into account.

  • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Active sort in piefed is basically equivalent to the New Comments sort in lemmy. It merely sorts posts so the top of the feed is the most recently “active” (iirc this means that the post was edited or a comment reply was made to it). So, time windows like that don’t make a lot of sense.

    However, I think what you are getting at is something like “Most comments in the past 24 hours” or something like that. TBH, doing this kind of rolling window filtering of posts would probably be a pretty expensive db query (if I had to guess, I am by no means a db expert).