I am aware that upvoted posts make it to https://kbin.social/fav however that just doesn’t work well as I already have 1,000+ pages in there. Moreover, that only registers upvoted posts and not comments. A workaround would be to just use boost, and only upvote when you want to “save” but that is just not conventional imho. The ability on /r to simply save a comment or a post is truly basic but effective.

@Ernest

EDIT: Relevant Codeberg issue

  • Pamasich@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    If I look at the top posts on /all/:

    1. Total 1958 | Upvotes 711 | Downvotes 43 | Boosts 645 | Link
    2. Total 1408 | Upvotes 608 | Downvotes 20 | Boosts 410 | Link
    3. Total 2062 | Upvotes 1274 | Downvotes 16 | Boosts 402 | Link
    4. Total 2198 | Upvotes 1568 | Downvotes 2 | Boosts 316 | Link

    Formula for total I’m using is boosts * 2 + upvotes - downvotes.

    Really doesn’t look to me like that’s what it uses.

    Though, now that you mentioned it, I do notice that rarely the posts aren’t in order of boosts. Maybe the sorting algorithm uses an entirely different formula? Boosts do seem to be mostly responsible though, judging by what I see on /all/.

    • Teppic@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was mostly going by what Ernest posted on codeburg four weeks ago.
      https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
      I’ll admit that other than noting by eye

      1. It’s not purely boosts; and
      2. It is mostly boosts (as you say)

      I’ve not actually tried making a spreadsheet to check the algorithm (…yet!)

      Edit: looking at /all perhaps for articles the number of comments is counted too somehow?

      Edit2: If you formatted your table as a code snippet it would probably work since it would use a fixed-width font.

    • themadcodger@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      A long time ago, back at the beginning (was that a month ago now?) Ernest posted that the boost button moved a thread to the top of the Active list and added some points for its score on Hot.