Maybe this is unpopular but I’m getting tired of opening lemmy and having to scroll past the same post that I have viewed already, half of the posts on the front page are 2 or 3 days old.
I turned off the show read in the account settings. I don’t see the articles I’m reading.
Bingo this has made it tolerable for me. But I miss the swipe to hide feature from Reddit is Fun. That way I don’t actually have to click on the post if I don’t care about it.
This is the way.
My issue with it is it is VERY literal. So like you can’t even see the posts in your post history because you’ve read them. So needs some work still lol.
Yep. On plebbit you were able to actively hide certain posts. I would like posts to remain available on communities I car about.
Not ideal for me. I like to keep tabs on the conversation on post. I will often see a post that is making its way up the page with a few comments and will check back in as I am browsing when it has hundreds.
My reddit goto was to mark as read as I scroll and then Boost had a “Clear all read” button I could press. It would only clear until I refreshed my feed then they would show up again until I hit the button again. It felt like a good balance.
That could work somewhat if it was an option on the actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type.
I just realized I never did this on reddit because I would check the post, reply to some comments and move on and never go back lol! I don’t think I want to do that here.
I like that the webui highlights new comments. It’s nice to get back to a good thread and see how it develops.
Sounds like good use for bookmarking/saving posts.
Are you sorting by Active? That’s why. Use hot, or something.
Lemmy needs to make Hot the default. It’s a better experience for new users.
Or better, Lemmy will let you choose the default, or remember your choices. Likewise, I typically browse all servers, annoying to have to switch from local to all each time.
It seems like you can change both of these in your profile settings (Settings -> Type & Sort type). It still displays “Local” on the landing page but it actually shows All content.
Ah shit so it does. Thanks for the tip! I feel like a fool for not seeing that.
I sort by hot and have seen the same posts 3 days in a row. I’ve actually had to completely switch to new to see anything outside of the same posts I’ve seen for days.
Same.
I sort by “Top Day” most of the time. Seems to give the best results to me
my go to method on reddit
iswas sorting by subscribed and top day. this way if I’ve seen everything already I know I’ve probably spent too much time scrolling and should check out individual communities if I’m trying to kill more time.There is currently a bug in Lemmy 0.17.4 that causes post rank calculation to stop shortly after the server is restarted. It seems like lemmy.world is affected as well.
You can track this bug here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076
I pinged Ruud about this, he can restart the server for now for the ranks to refresh, but I am also working on investigating and fixing the root cause.
Well, that explains it. Hopefully it’s fixed soon, thanks!
I am a bit split. I too find it a bit annoying to scroll past 80% of the posts. On the other hand, sometimes I see that there are new comments (which lemmy shows) under a post about an interesting topic.
I think the UI, instead of just bringing the posts up without explanation, should show you how many new comments the post received. It would be great for keeping tabs on a discussion, too.
The Reddit Enhancement Suite stores a cookie that remembers the number of comments when you visited a post. It’s a killer feature.
A more modern UI example:
I would not have understood the meaning of the +4 had i not seen the old UI first.
Yeah this is why I haven’t set that option that hides visited links…
This might be needed, yes. I currently just sort by new, but that will probably lead to missing out on the actually popular topics when even more people start joining Lemmy.
I actually get the most utility out of new comments but in my dreams I’d like to see separate drop downs for timespan and criteria. The sort I’m really craving is “most comments” “past day” but I think pretty much every combination would be useful and interesting. They could even have options referring to different time dropoff curves. Then the traditional past day, past week, etc would effectively be flat.
In the ios app ( mlem) it defaults to top, so always odler stuff
I personally view this as a good thing for me (if unintended) - I’ve realised that I spent waaaay too much time on reddit, so I’m trying to cut down on my use of the platform.
I like lemmy, but I don’t want to spend all my time here either. The relatively low volume here makes me realise I should be doing other things.
That said, you can always join more communities - or better yet, contribute to them! Start your own posts!
I do but even on my subscribed front page all the posts are mostly ones I’ve already seen. It would be kind of cool if we could customize our own front page to control the age of posts that show up I feel
I’ll also add that not everyone feels that way and wats to give up their addiction and just want to see fresh content each day.
Other than playing with your default sort order, there’s also a setting to hide posts you’ve already read. It’s in your profile settings somewhere. I tried it and just found it confusing as heck but you might find it useful!
oh yeah, that’s a valid opinion too. It works for me, but I know it doesn’t work for everyone.
My other point still stands though - you’re free to contribute yourself! :)
I’ve started sorting by new which has worked out pretty well, I was noticing the same thing though sorting by active/hot - lots of 3 day old threads. Alternatively I’d love to be able to hide read posts in Jerboa.
You can deselect “show read” in your profile settings.
Does this prevent them from appearing when there are new comments too?
As far as I can tell, yes unfortunately. It also hides created posts from your profile. Hopefully they will fine tune it going forward.
Interesting! I had totally missed that box so thanks for the heads up
I think that hiding readed posts on the front page is a nice idea.
What you want is sorting by new, in “subscribed” or even “all”
New + subscribes works fine yes. But won’t you miss out new comments in popular posts that are a bit older with that option? If you are subscribed to lots of communities, the first few pages already are starting to get filled with new posts in a few hours. It is probably hard to do this well for everyone.
No I don’t as I don’t want to see all content I just want to see the good stuff, which is why I feel like the posts should age out after 24 hours so that when I get on lemmy the next day I have new quality content to view.
You could sort by “top day”, at least then you won’t see older posts.
Where is that at? Im blind lol but this sounds like what I want.
Website:
Jerboa:
holy shit thank you man! I’m so blind, I dont know why I never clicked that button.
No worries, happy scrolling!
I change the setting on my home feed into subscribe + new comment. Works well for me. All hot posts still takes chunk of first 10 on my homefeed, but really new post is not that far down the line…
I’m finding it’s much better to sort posts by “hot” than “Active”, it seems to more heavily prioritise newer posts. I’d really like to make this my default but I can’t work out how to do it - does anyone know if that’s possible?
There’s a toggle towards the bottom of your profile settings I believe… Here it is in Jerboa
Ah, I’d been staring at that page for ages and missed it. Thank you.
Thank you, I was getting annoyed that those kept reverting to the defaults but didn’t think to look in profile settings.
Hey there! Just wondering, is there a way to browse instances and communities outside of your home instance in jerboa? The search function is wonky. Not expecting you to have the answer but I’m hoping a user who happens to know might see this and point me in the right direction
You can filter between local (seeing just the node in which you have the account) and all (seeing all non-blocked nodes in the federation).
you can also vote and comment on other nodes content of course.
There seem to be quite a few of these
browsersites popping up: https://browse.feddit.de/
But if those posts get new comments, it isn’t so bad. I dislike how many websites age stuff too fast.
The only reason people are commenting so much on posts is due to how long they stay on the front page. 24 hours is plenty of time for a complete discussion. I agree that reddit aged stuff a bit to fast but I suppose they had to due to the large volume of content being posted.
24 hours seems quite short to me
Idk if I want to get back to a post I’ll usually do it through my own comments. When I’m looking at my feed I want new posts.
What I do is that I usually have my “frontpage” on subscribed-new. This way there is often new content that I find interesting. If I still want more, I check on “local” or “all” also on new and then I can enjoy standing under the waterfall of content. It’s fun going about it this way.
