I suppose this community is as good as any. But it's difficult to talk in general about this as each fediverse app has different performance needs/characteristics, so I'm not sure if you can extrapolate anything in general. But perhaps?

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Well problem with any Lemmy community as such a forum, is that current usage (not necessarily intrinsic to the software) is so ephemeral. So it's good for discussing breaking news, but not to gradually accumulate discussion of solutions to complex problems, over years. I wish this were not the case, but doubt anybody will even notice this comment, as no longer 'hot', and folded away ... Rather, a few weeks later the same topic will be reopened under a different post, and we start over again.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

"New comments" sort helps with that

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, that's the nature of link aggregators. Lemmy's and Reddit's style is a link aggregator, not really what you would consider an old-fashioned forums. It's a different sort of use case with different pros and cons. A con is that you don't get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. A pro is that... you don't get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. :P

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"New comments" sort helps with that

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

Sort of, but doesn't it just sort by the latest comment? I.e. any thread would be bumped to the top by a single comment? I might be wrong. But that makes it kind of less than ideal if true.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

That's indeed how it works (and that's I was able to see those comments).

It works for me, how would you like to have it differently? IIRC on old school forums a single message would also bump the thread