Post #2124032
2026-05-05 16:51 UTC
I think maybe it would be better to just tweak the Hot algorithm slightly. Maybe either adjust the curve, or use `max(age, 1 hour)` in the calculation so that new content is not favored quite as hard, aka new content is scored as if it were an hour old.
But you could make a dedicated discussion post asking about this, so more people can see
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@nutomic@lemmy.ml 2026-05-11 08:27
I asked [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) about this as he is more familiar with the ranking algos: > Maybe not renaming active, but possibly renaming hot... but IMO they're fine. Its just different from reddit, and more like the hackernews algorithm: join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html#hacker-news . It's more new-focused to prevent the main problem of reddits which is rewarding first posts / comments, regardless of their quality