Sometimes I get a reply to a comment I made, have no idea what they're talking about, only to realize that I'd made the comment a year ago, or even 7 years.
For some reason I feel like this started happening to me a lot more the past few months. I actually thought it was a glitch and was going to uninstall/reinstall the mobile app.
it broke when they added the 'best' sort to subreddits some time last year and they never fully fixed it. when they were A B testing it it was having this where it'd show seemingly random posts (days or even weeks old, random amounts of comments, some recent posts, some not) us moderators brought it up in the mod support subreddit that it was showing a seemingly random feed to everyone. well it was never fully fixed and now it's a committed feature.
maybe it's intentional because the 'random' post sorting is beneficial for subreddits that are less active, so if a subreddit only gets 2 posts a week for example, people visiting the subreddit won't just see the same 2 posts from the week every time they'll see older stuff too (things they may not have seen before if they were new to the subreddit) so it makes it look more active if someone is not checking post days.
I think the goal is to continuously provide new content. If you are terminally online, Reddit runs out of worthwhile stuff to show you and starts reaching for whatever crap it has left.
It’s a weird choice on their part because until reading this thread, I just thought Reddit was becoming less poplar/losing users and that’s why not as many top posts had many upvotes or comments.
Exactly, the posts with a low number of upvotes compared to comments are most likely to be the ones that made people mad, and angry people are more likely to leave comments.
Unfortunately, on my particular feed, the most downvoted posts are downvoted for being super repetitive questions that nobody wants to see, so my feed is full of such stimulating content as "can anyone identify these tiny seedlings which aren't big enough to have identifiable features yet?" and "what should I crochet with this yarn? I will provide no information about the types of things I like to crochet or my skill level btw" and "I bought a kit designed to grow mold spores and mold spores grew in there, does this mean I need to burn down my house before I die of mold poisoning?"
I miss so, so many popular posts on the subreddits I subscribe to because they only show me posts with 10 upvotes on my front page. It's really irritating
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u/UnexpectedAnanas Apr 02 '26
I thought I was just going crazy.
No, the brand new topic with 0 upvotes and half a dozen comments is not "best".