Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that’s also popular.
I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.
Active seems to order based on discussion length while hot lets you discover newer content that’s also popular.
I changed my default settings to hot, since it seems to be better for discovery.
Here in the documentation it explains what the sort modes do. Active considers the time of the latest comment, and hot considers when the post was published instead.