suggestion: when looking at all subs, being able to sort subs by activity

submitted by Nemesis from self.SaidIt

popular is basically useless, since it sorts by subscriber count. This filter is cluttered with dead subs like /s/dogecoin that have thousands of subscribers from the old system where new accounts were autosubscribed.
new has a ton of brand new subs that either are devoid of content or scam subs shilling some kind of pharmaceutical.
as it stands there isn't a good way to find active subs without camping /new and wading through IP2 posts. A filter that ordered all subsaidits by most recent post would be an amazing way to find active communities on here.

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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

as it stands there isn't a good way to find active subs without camping /new and wading through IP2 posts.

Please on /new, use the 'mute sub' button under any post from IP2, and then you won't have to wade anymore! You can unmute them later if you just go to their sub and click 'unmute sub' under and post, so it's not a permanent commitment to mute a sub! Give it a try and you'll find /new a lot more inviting

[–]yellow_algebra_31 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes I like this feature! Works for /comments too.

also if you friend accounts, /s/friends will display only content from those friended accounts.

OP /u/Nemesis

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's not a bad idea! Thanks for bringing that up.

A filter that ordered all subsaidits by most recent post would be an amazing way to find active communities on here.

That makes sense to me. That'd be relatively computationally inexpensive to compute and sort and would give more meaningful output.

I will look in to this a bit and see how difficult it'd be.

I was able to find approximately the area in the code where this happens, but I can't find the sorting algorithm itself: https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit/blob/88db512c97972331ca22ad6d204ee91439abfd01/r2/r2/controllers/listingcontroller.py#L1604

[–]Nemesis[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

my post sounded kind of whiny, but honestly this isn't something that would drive me away if it proves too difficult to add, or if there's other priorities.
My motivation is I'm trying to revive interesting subs, it's easiest with subs that have somewhat recent but low intensity posting. In this new filter I would be looking at page 2, communities that are getting user interest but something's still missing from the sub formula to maintain engagement. Each sub's a unique challenge, it would be cool to be able to quickly find prospects.
Thank you for your response

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it'd be cool maybe as a new tab, add some new functionality. However it looks like it'd be a 5-10 hour project maybe. We'd probably also have to set up a database listing that refreshes every 10 minutes, which can then be read from to generate the list of most recently posted in subs. And then we have to add the extra category for that tab in the code. And then we have to set that page up to read that database listing.

It's doable, but it's not a small project. It's a medium-sized project. But it would be cool. I'll add it to our to-do list so someday we can maybe develop this feature.