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How does the Subscribed feed actually work? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.

How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What sort are you using? If you're using a time based sort like Top 6 Hours it will exclude older content.

If you sort by New are you still missing posts?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I'm still missing some posts in that view.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, sounds more like a bug than a feature. Looking at my instance, I can't find any examples of posts not displaying in the subscribed feed that do appear in the community feed. Is it affecting both local and federated communities?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looking at it on my desktop right now, I'm seeing everything I'd expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I'm browsing on my phone, but that's just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can't imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I'm not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I'm "missing" posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

I'll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that's what's actually going on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Federation isn't instantaneous. New is good enough if you're checking it a couple times a day, but minute-to-minute it's got some wobble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It should, there is something strange happening