It never did; the Active sort biases for relatively recent posts (last 6-8 hours or so) with very recent comments (last 10 minutes for maximum impact).

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I moved most of mine to an ex-US fund that’s offered by my 401k plan, but even that is going to take a large hit when the bubble pops. My concern is that the U.S. market has been propped up by enormous government expenditures into R&D that are no longer happening, so I was leery of just standing pat. But I plan to simply ride out the crash while continuing to toss money in from every check, which I believe is the safest, most sensible way to go about it, for a long-term investor.

https://github.com/hexbear-collective/lemmy/pull/6

That’s the Active sort algorithm, which I restored to the original Hexbear Active sort after we merged back to upstream lemmy. See file up.sql for the actual algorithm. It’s unfortunately rather difficult to read for those not technically inclined, and kinda hard to understand clearly even for those who can read it. I came to understand it by trying out some basic examples to understand how it worked.

Basically, for several hours after a post, recent comments adjust the time of the post forward to make it come off as more recent, which pushes its rank higher. Right after the post is made, a comment can adjust the post time into the future, maximizing this effect. This effect fades away after several hours, though, such that posts 8 or 9 hours old or older have trouble rising to the top of the feed when competing with newer posts.

Bumping this to hopefully get it a bit more engagement; not really prepared to opine on this topic myself. Effortposts often have trouble getting any traction, which is a rather unfortunate dynamic, so I thought I’d add visibility while that’s still possible.

Bumping, but this thread is too old for it to do much :/

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Extra bump just before the 10-minute cutoff, for maximum bumping power (fellow bumpers, take note: this is timing-based, not number-of-comments-based)

Let’s see how effective bumping is after 9-and-change hours. Probably not really enough tbh; a new thread may be called for.

Edit: yeah, only up to 2nd page of default feed, which is less than ideal.

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Twofold, even (Paper Blood: “Livin’ on a razor’s edge/sharper than a knife”)

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