Posts used to be getting hundreds of upvotes and now not a single post on the front page breaches 100, what gives?

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    The hot sorting algorithm still needs work. In the beginning it was possible for posts that were 6 days old to be at the top of hot. The algorithm changed now, but too much in the other direction in my opinion. Now it's impossible for something older than a few hours to be on the front page of hot, now matter how many upvotes it gets. The site is still being built, and we need to find a middle ground between the two in my opinion. Also if you sort by new you can see that there are actually a lot of posts.