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.
This is a lemmy thing not a voyager thing btw
Thanks. 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.
My guess from the names:
Hot - Received a lot of upvotes
Active - Lots of comments
Scaled - Hot but takes into account smaller posts and communities
How is hot different from top?
This is just conjecture from experience, but I would guess that hot is a weighted sort that shows posts in order of upvotes per unit time. While top is net total of upvotes in a determined time period.
Hot is rising
Top is most upvotes in a specified amount of time, Hot is receiving lots of reactions around the time you view the filter. So hot and top may overlap but a post with 1000 upvotes in the last week may show below a post with 400 in hot because that post got 350 upvotes in the last hour whereas the one with 1000 only got 50 in the last hour.
Also note these are just guesses on my behalf, I'm not sure how they actually work I've not looked at the code, these answers just make the most logical sense to me.
Here's the page that explains all the sorting options: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
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.
Reddit had sort by rising, which I loved. This is probably the equivalent of that.
Top past 6 hours feels like rising to me, probably because of the small size of Lemmy.
I thought that was for finding reptiles?
Shhh, don't be scaled, you'll ok.
Oh cool, this is an option in Thunder now, I didn't notice before
It's in Sync as well. I don't know why I always read complaints about sync not being updated frequently.
Yeah but the option appeared in sync only after around 3 months after the release of Lemmy 0.19
You 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.
Because the dev disappears for months at a time. That's said often enough that it's clearly true.
funny how its the only sort item that doesn't have a capital letter as its first character
What ? It does. Edit: I meant it does start with capital.
funny 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.
Do you have a screenshot?
So I just realized that I am in the Voyager community, sorry. But I wasn't aware of that feature and replied. Could be my instance or something else and not Voyager
I meant it does start with capital
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