I haven’t seen a thread on this in a while. I have been going with top day for a while, but it can be hit or miss. Other sorts don’t seem to display as good in terms of balancing quality and quantity. What is your preferred sort for your main feed?
Edit: Realizing that the people who sort new commented before the hot/top/active people, haha
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Insertion Sort.
It’s easier to remember how to program than quick sort and it’s stable (it keeps the previous order for same value data)
Top 12 hours
Top 6 hours, then New, then top 12 hours.
sub: top 12 hours, all: top 6 hours
this somewhat balances out feeds I missed on my subscribed list.
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Scaled sort usually gives good results.
I didn’t even know this existed. Is this new?
Kinda, it was only added a couple months ago
It’s new for me!
It’s a great balance between new and hot! You mostly see posts that picked up some interest within the first couple minutes of being posted
I used to use “top 24h” but these days I just sort by “hot” because it actually seems to work pretty well now: I don’t see the total garbage that gets down voted immediately like you get with “new” but I see pretty much everything else (which is what I like; I especially like finding interesting posts in obscure communities!).
I also regularly block foreign language communities for no other reason than I can’t read them so there’s no point in them taking up space in my feed. Like, I’m sure that German meme about Elon Musk is hilarious but since I don’t know German it’s just noise 🤷
Local new first, then all new.
New most of the time
All, Top for the past 6 hours. Sometimes in the morning I’ll switch it to 12 hours to see what I missed overnight and other times the week just to make sure. But I don’t subscribe to anything, give me all the best of Lemmy
Default sort? I just set mine to ‘New’ to keep up with the one guy who posts a thousand news articles per minute. The rest of the users are either trolls or the braindead few who haven’t realized they’re the last ones left in this digital wasteland. It’s like watching the end of the internet in slow motion.
quick sort on random input, insertion sort on almost-sorted inputs
Honestly, sorting algos are serious nerd shit. They’re for suckers and losers. If it’s not worth doing, insertion sort every day of the week. Compute is cheap. If it’s actually important, then it’s TimSort (it’s never important).
In small datasets, the speed difference is minimal; but, once you get to large datasets with hundreds of thousands to millions of entries they do make quite a difference. For example, you’re a large bank with millions of clients, and you want to get a list of the people with the most money in an account. Depending on the sorting algorithm used, the processing time could range from seconds to days. That’s also only one operation, there’s so much other useful information that could be derived from a database like that using sorting.
Hot but I sometimes switch to New
All, top 6 hours.
