Sort has been changed so you can set a default sort in the Settings! This also fixes a lot of issues, for example if you change the sort while viewing a community and then change sort, when you swipe back your sort will be preserved (and you feed won’t jump) :)
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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Oh, and I forgot to add, a “remember sort by community” feature is coming shortly.
First thing I said in my post was that I set the app (in settings) to Hot.
When it started behaving this way, I changed it to New then returned it to Hot just in case the setting didn't stick somehow. Despite now saying the default sort is Hot, it is only sorted by Hot if I manually change the feed to Hot each and every time I return to it.
Every time I open a feed or community, regardless of what I set it to in the past, it always reverts to Active.
Just to double check, did you change the comment default sort? There’s two default sorts in settings, one for posts and one for comments.
Once you double check you’re adjusting post default sort, try changing default in settings to “top 6 Hours” and restart the app and let me know if it is reverting to active. Thank you!🙏
I was really confused at first because I didn't know comment sorting had that many options. "Top 6 Hours" is only available for comments for me. Is it suppose to be available for posts as well?
So, I changed BOTH post and comment sorting to New then both back to Hot, NOW the feeds are sorting by Hot on their own.
Just to be clear, was there only comment sorting in the setting a before? It feels like the update took whatever the setting for comments and applied it to posts instead of using the existing state.
"Top 6 Hours" is for posts only.
There has always been an option to set default comment sort, but not default post sort. Previously, post sort defaulted to whatever you last set it to, instead of using a value specified in Settings.
So recently I've added a default sort for posts. See screenshot, hopefully that helps. Let me know if you're still encountering any weird behavior. :)
Yeah, I understand the change. Whatever the issue was with my app, it's gone now.
I guess my update got gummed up with old stuff stuck in the cache or something. Even though I force-quit Voyager while troubleshooting the setting wouldn't take at first.
(Sorry I can't post images to show you what I was looking at, I picked the worst instance for uploading media.)
Interesting. I’ll keep my eye out for any other reports. Thanks!
The most annoying part is I’m now responding to posts that are like 4+ days old. Long past “Active”
Active also triggers if old-ish posts have new comments in them. Which is why you get 4 day old posts when the have set the feed to sort by Active
Still getting the same behavior. Change setting to Top(6 hours), go to a community, setting is back to active. Change again, go back to Local, it’s back to Active.
Can you do a screen recording?
I saw another comment about default sort being in settings and that seems to have been the issue. I don’t like that change but there doesn’t seem to be an actual bug.
There is a new feature coming to remember community sort :)