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How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by god@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that's like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I've already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of "top 16 hours" and "active"?

What do you do when browsing Lemmy? What are some of your strategies to get good shit while being here? Cuz so far if I try and use the front pages I get bored to shit.

The way I get anything barely worth interacting with from the front page is New Comments. Not the best, but better than the other options I discussed.

That or just, instead of interacting with a lot of stuff, interacting deeply with the few things I find that I like.

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[–] boothin@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it just that the hot algorithm freezes and stops updating? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I'm on kbin and the hot sorting works and it's great for checking a few times a day since it actually updates

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

MAYBE SO, cuz i have the exact same things lol. maybe that's the reason 😅 i was thinking of just making my own frontend to solve it but that's a bit overkill and i'd have to scrape the fuck out of the servers' apis to get better sorting and that's a bit impolite.