When scrolling through the main feed eventually I will hit a point where it’s roughly the same 20 or so posts on repeat. The posts might not be in the exact same order and new content will be mixed in.
In Apollo it would eventually hit “the bottom” of the feed and it wouldn’t go any further. This feels like the app is fetching the next posts but without a full page of results it’s returning the same posts again and again.
Anyone else seeing this?
Someone was explaining this to me last week. The algorithm goes by comments and upvotes. I was seeing 3 year old posts but had upvoted before I saw how old it was. That sent it to hot and then someone probably made the same mistake and so on, which made the post get hotter. I think they’re re-configuring the algorithm so it may change.
Also, this is conjecture, but I think when you’re in all, you’re seeing your instance’s version and everyone else’s version of the same post. So if someone from your instance upvotes, it makes it hotter. Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not positive this is the case.
I’m seeing the same thing as OP. This is definitely a bug. There will be a gap in posts, like a “missing” post and then I’ll see the same exact post(s) come up from the same community as before.
This is on the TestFlight version which the devs have acknowledged is a little broke right now.
I now realized I should have specified I’m using the TestFlight release.
I hadn’t made a connection to the blank posts, I’ll need to keep an eye on that to see if I notice the same behavior.