Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that’s also popular.

I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.

  • Papamousse@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Yes yes yes this should be the default!!! If new user refresh the page/app it is always the same stuff because of this “active”

    Dev should use “hot” as default.

  • drone515English
    7·
    2 years ago

    Here in the documentation it explains what the sort modes do. Active considers the time of the latest comment, and hot considers when the post was published instead.

    • Cougar@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thank you, that makes sense. My biggest concern here is that “Active” often shows posts that are several days old when new content is already available.

  • milkpiss@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Agreed, active is interesting and may be useful in some situations (maybe if you want to keep up-to-date on new comments on big posts) but I feel like hot lets new posts show up more easily.