• nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    The benefit to a forum is that posts with new comments move to the top. If a Reddit/Lemmy post gets a single new comment it may or may not be seen again by anyone except the OP or of the comment was a reply then to the op of the replied comment.

    Some forums do have up/down votes as well as nested comments.

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      6 days ago

      The benefit to a forum is that posts with new comments move to the top. If a Reddit/Lemmy post gets a single new comment it may or may not be seen again by anyone except the OP or of the comment was a reply then to the op of the replied comment.

      Lemmy does have this actually

      New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums

      https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

      and then there’s the “Active” sort, which is kind of a compromise

      Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

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      6 days ago

      You could force latest comment sort on the posts, but leave the comments sorting to the user.