Comment on Why most posts (so far as I can tell) have very short lifespan tendency?
lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 10 months agoFrom bulletin board experiences back in the aughts - I don’t know how this wasn’t a similar problem? If it was a recent thread - it got interaction. I think that had the benefit of not having a “front page” so you could see 10 or 20 posts for each sub-forum. Which is similar enough to just going to a subreddit and looking at the most recent posts - but most folks, I think, don’t interact like that with these types of interfaces unless they have a specific thing to look for?
natflow@apollo.town 10 months ago
It wasn’t an issue because whenever someone would make a comment, it would “bump” the thread back up the top of the feed (whatever form the feed took). I think the “hot” filter is supposed to take interactions into account, but I think most people just browse top 12/24 hours.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The problem with the active sort is seeing the same post I’ve scrolled by for three days now and didn’t carw about in the first place. We need much easier methods to hide posts for that sort filter to have any use to me.
natflow@apollo.town 10 months ago
I’m using Voyager and that’s a simple matter of a short left swipe, or the setting to hide read posts (and expanding its image or voting counts as having “read” it). But I don’t use the second and the first is tedious, so I feel similarly and don’t use anything but top (12 or 24 usually).
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I use New Comments, though that also isn’t a great view, tbh.