Right now, all the options on the front page are magic sorting (except Daily, which lists thing in chronological order). Magical sorting means that posts are filtered by by Karma and Recency. If you were posted within the past day or so, your post will appear near the top, after which it’ll only stay near the top if it gets upvoted)
Reasons for this were:
Based on what pages/settings were used most, it seemed like basically, people either wanted to make sure they saw everything in chronological order, or they just wanted the best content roughly sorted in by “what’s new and seems good?” (i.e. magical sorting).
In general, every bit of complexity in a UI has a cost. Each individual cost is small, but they add up.
It seemed more important to give people control over what types of content they could see on the front page, than fine-tuned control over how to sort).
Which one is magic sorting?
Right now, all the options on the front page are magic sorting (except Daily, which lists thing in chronological order). Magical sorting means that posts are filtered by by Karma and Recency. If you were posted within the past day or so, your post will appear near the top, after which it’ll only stay near the top if it gets upvoted)
Reasons for this were:
Based on what pages/settings were used most, it seemed like basically, people either wanted to make sure they saw everything in chronological order, or they just wanted the best content roughly sorted in by “what’s new and seems good?” (i.e. magical sorting).
In general, every bit of complexity in a UI has a cost. Each individual cost is small, but they add up.
It seemed more important to give people control over what types of content they could see on the front page, than fine-tuned control over how to sort).