Comment on New communities and flooding the feed

Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The “New Comments” sort is actually supposed to be like old school forums, where a new post would be at the top and then each comment would “bump” the post to the top again. It works the exact same way. Although a way to sort by “New Comments” with at least 1 comment would be an interesting option, just need better names for these things lol.

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  • Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    a new post would be at the top and then each comment would “bump” the post to the top again.

    That might be a fitting description of the current behaviour, yes. But the doc you linked only mentions the last part. It does not specify wether new posts with no comments are sorted top or bottom. I expected it to sort them bottom, since a post with no comments has no “New Comments”.

    if everyone uses that then who will be the first one to comment on any post?

    Yes, but not everyone uses that. I switch between different sorting types. Sometimes I am the first to comment.

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    • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But the doc you linked only mentions the last part. It does not specify wether new posts with no comments are sorted top or bottom.

      it’s not spelled out clearly, but it does say “analogous to the sorting of traditional forums”, they could make that doc more clear (maybe you should take a shot at improving the phrasing? github.com/LemmyNet/…/03-votes-and-ranking.md )

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