I don't think adding descriptions should be a priority. It would be a nice-to-have if it could somehow be in the tooltip when hovering the link, or in a spoiler maybe, but that seems like a lot of work for marginal gain. I definitely would not want the post cluttered, and I think having a longer list is better than a shorter list but with descriptions. They're only a click away in the community sidebar, anyway.

The metric used (subscriber growth) doesn't account for if there's actually much of anything there, but I like that these lists highlight new stuff that people might be interested in, rather than ones that people probably already know about.

These lists have been great and like I said elsewhere, I wish it was actually incorporated officially somehow, either as the "trending communities" (which currently only means "newly created communities" as far as I know) or as a default subscription for new accounts or something.

Still, I wonder if it can be refined further. Is it possible for the formula to account for posts? Maybe that's undesirable, but for me, I'm usually looking for communities that are somewhat active when browsing these, so filtering out results that haven't had a new post during the last week would be great for my purposes. Or at least filtering out completely empty communities. Or is Lemmy still at a stage of growth where this would be unproductive?

EDIT: punctuation

[-] freamon@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

This is the response for a community:

{ "baseurl": "lemmy.world", "url": "https://lemmy.world/c/starwarsmemes", "name": "starwarsmemes", "title": "Star Wars Memes", "desc": "Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.\n\nTechnical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a \"Subscription pending\" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)\n\n\n\nSp", "icon": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1df05a77-c6dd-4662-9ea3-62a24ca9a25f.jpeg", "banner": "https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a6a96e24-de89-4720-9bbe-9ca5447dc6e3.png", "nsfw": false, "counts": { "id": 287, "community_id": 465, "subscribers": 7847, "posts": 216, "comments": 1734, "published": "2023-06-07T14:25:41.586869", "users_active_day": 10, "users_active_week": 204, "users_active_month": 905, "users_active_half_year": 945, "hot_rank": 0 }, "time": 1689730109444, "isSuspicious": false, "score": 2895543 }

To give you an idea of which information is / isn't available (I don't know why I thought the description wasn't in there)

The other "trending" lists work off "users_active_week" I think, but - for me - seem as likely to link me to something inactive/empty. Post today vs. posts yesterday would be doable (but I'd probably rather read one interesting post in 'hobbydrama' over then posts from 'risa')

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

I think posts today vs posts yesterday would filter out too many communities since Lemmy is still - on the whole - fairly small. Domain-Driven Design ( !ddd@programming.dev) for example is on todays list, but has no new posts the last 24 hours and only one post the last week.

If we're hunting for a single metric for trending communities, what about a composite between both subscriber growth and activity this week compared to activity last week?

[-] freamon@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try. There's so many Communities (about 20k) and they don't change that often, so it's difficult to know what the best metrics are. Only really to try something new and see whether it produces something interesting. So I'll continue experimenting.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023

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