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what Lemmy communities don't exist but you wish they did? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by pelletbucket@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.

I will comment more as I think of them.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We added the scaled sort to help with that(it gives a boost to less active communities), but I don't know if many people are using it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think one other thing that might help would be to adjust the "Active" sort. I believe it has some kind of hard-coded 2 day limit? So posts older than 2 days will not show up. The problem is that as the sort is working right now, it often displays posts that are 2 days old. This isn't great for getting new content. It'd be nice if the "Active" sort (or any other other sorts) parameters could be configured somehow.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The active, hot, and scaled sort have that two day bump limit, but active uses the newest comment time for it's algorithm, whereas hot uses the post creation time.

So the hot sort is better for new trending content, and active is better for topics with new comments.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

active uses the newest comment time

I think this is what I don't like about active sort. Just a single comment is all it needs to bump a highly upvoted post to the top. I feel like it should rather look at an aggregate of recent comments or something along those lines, so that a single comment doesn't cause such a big effect. It's kinda like if a single vote could move a post to the top.