The cool people now leaving were happy in the old sub but not here. Why?

Btw "meta" posts should go here or in userunion?

  • Poop [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I maintain it is because this site prioritizes "active" posts instead of popular yet uncontroversial posts

    • 90u9y8gb9t86vytv97g [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      The algorithm here is tailored to be much faster paced with posts expiring after like 30 minutes, it caters to the people who spend hours of their day here and not normal people that tune in to check what the front page is once a day.

      So that drives away normal people you need for a site to function like Reddit does and promotes the type of people that fight over whatever has led them to turning off downvotes sitewide

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      That should be easily tweaked probably

      • Poop [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        100% When there were like 5000 people here it made sense since the same posts would be on the front page all day but now it makes more sense to go back closer to how it was.

        • garbology [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, I think the ideal is for the default "Hot" to show content for the "checks the frontpage once a day" crowd, and have the "Active" and "New" sorts for the Very Online of us.