Lemmy Lead Developer and father of two children.

I also develop Ibis, a federated wiki.

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  • Adding a new sort type is not a big deal, so dont worry about it. And a new admin setting for this would also require UI changes, so the new sort type is easier overall.

    The current sort options calculate the rank for each post only from the data on that post (number of votes, creation time). Your suggested algorithm looks much more complicated than that, as it requires two iterations and needs to access data from multiple posts at once. Im not sure if this can really be implemented in a way thats performant enough for production use. Anyway feel free to open a pull request, then hopefully other contributors can help you to get it working.















  • These types of changes are rather annoying because you need to edit the file, wait about an hour for the release build to finish, then fix any problems and repeat until it works. Though its definitely good to have multiple platforms for releases.

    So if you want to make a PR and get it working you are welcome to do that. Then I will add the auth token so you can test it. Github seems preferable as we already use that.