The first 4-5 pages show new content every day as expected but once I go over about 5 pages it only shows old content which is very annoying. I’m currently running version 1.8.2 for both the front end and back end of lemmy. Are there any solutions to this?

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    1 year ago

    The reason why it’s broken is because the query to update the rankings were so slow that it only ran once a week or so. So unless you restarted your instance every day the ranking would be stale.

    Fortunately there’s a fix available in the next Lemmy version, 0.18.3. If you are impatient you could build an image of the release candidate (git tag is 0.18.3-rc.2) and deploy it on your server.

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        1 year ago

        Will new comments get worse as people encounter this problem and comment on old content without realizing it?

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          1 year ago

          Very possible, but also we are far less obligated to always have capital H HOT content here on the fediverse. Maybe interacting with old content isn’t so bad?

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            1 year ago

            Perhaps, except that years-old content is less likely to be valuable. News of any category is basically worthless.