Comment by MSFT_Edging
2 years ago
The current sorting algo is sorta not great. An instance i'm on that forked, and then unforked recently is dealing with this right now. We had our own react frontend with really nice custom themes, but in order to federate we had to go back to the main codebase.
It's not great but it will hopefully improve. A lot of growing pains but overall its a really exciting time.
So long as it's a known thing, I trust it will improve. It's just unfortunate that it had to be this broken during Lemmy's most opportune moment to capture new users.
That, among other things, is creating a lot of friction for new users at the moment though.
Yeah, I've been urging patience to a few folks who seem frustrated by the change. IIRC its not a big team working on lemmy, and then you have many different teams deploying their instances, adding custom features, etc.
It's certainly improved a lot over time, but the reddit exodus wasn't really planned. I'm sure the lemmy devs are feeling the pressure.