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[–]magnora7 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah we could probably speed the hot algorithm up by 20% or so now that we have more traffic. I'll look in to it

[–]r721 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You should change "45000" constant in hot algorithm:

https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algorithms-work-ef111e33d0d9

45 000 seconds = 750 minutes = 12.5 hours

This constant basically means that 12.5 hours old 100 points post is ranked the same as recent 10 points post using hot sorting (and 25 hours old 1000 points post and so on).

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Alright I just reduced the hot seconds by 20%, so the front page should change more often now. We actually had it on 36 hours, now it's down to 30 hours. Now that we have enough comments and stuff it can support the faster change. We'll continue adjusting that down as we get more traffic. Thanks

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Could probably be reduced way lower since hot should probably be for more temporary stuff while using top with 24 hour setting shows the biggest posts of the day. At least that's how i like to use Reddit.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well if it gets reduced too much there are a lot of downsides so I'd rather change it gradually