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Reddits hot page shows posts based now how many upvotes they've gotten against an exponentially increasing negative score based on the age of the post. This prevents day old posts from filling the hot page, forcing new topics to the top and generating new discussions. Here half my hot page is under an hour old, on Reddit most of the hot page is 6 hours or more, sometimes less in my sub feed if it's a slow day. I can't figure out what's wrong with the hot page here, but it feels awful to use any of the filters. I've been resorting to constantly flipping through the various filters hoping something feels as fresh as reddits hot page, but I haven't figured out if any of them work for that yet.
Try the Top Six Hours filter
Okay, but why aren't those posts showing up in hot as opposed to the 20 minutes old posts with 20 upvotes? Now I can only see what is relevant from the last 6 hours when the hot page should be organized so I can see the relevant news for today at almost any point. Instead it's half filled with minutes old memes. The hot algorithm needs a lot of work.