So, if a post that was published a year ago gets a 1000 sat zap just now, it will show up on LIT above a post that was just published an hour ago, but only got 500 sats in zaps.
The hope is that LIT does a better job of surfacing what stackers are actually talking about and zapping and interacting with, regardless of when it was published.
it is a little more complicated than this as LIT takes into account all sats invested in a post but halves their weight every four hours after the investment occurred. So: post in ~privacy where the posting fee is 500 sats and it counts the same for ranking in LIT as getting a 500 sat zap. However after four hours, it only counts as 250 sats as far as LIT is concerned. A new post in ~AskSN (posting fee of 100 sats) will still be ranked lower than the older ~privacy post. But if the ~AskSN post gets a 200 sat zap, it will rise to a higher rank in LIT than the ~privacy post. ↩
I do spend most of my time on NEW, but I wonder if people who are not so permanently online want to scroll through all new posts by default. It's interesting to think about though.
LIT is sorting all items on SN by recent zaps.[1]
So, if a post that was published a year ago gets a 1000 sat zap just now, it will show up on LIT above a post that was just published an hour ago, but only got 500 sats in zaps.
The hope is that LIT does a better job of surfacing what stackers are actually talking about and zapping and interacting with, regardless of when it was published.
it is a little more complicated than this as LIT takes into account all sats invested in a post but halves their weight every four hours after the investment occurred. So: post in ~privacy where the posting fee is 500 sats and it counts the same for ranking in LIT as getting a 500 sat zap. However after four hours, it only counts as 250 sats as far as LIT is concerned. A new post in ~AskSN (posting fee of 100 sats) will still be ranked lower than the older ~privacy post. But if the ~AskSN post gets a 200 sat zap, it will rise to a higher rank in LIT than the ~privacy post. ↩