Maybe I'm just misremembering or thinking of another site, but I could swear the "hot" list used to be comprised of most-discussed topics... the ones with high comment traffic.

Lately (maybe since the new layout?), I'm seeing lots of topics that have maybe one or two comments, and some of those barely discussed posts are more than a day old. Really? How "hot" could they be?

Also, whenever a brand new topic is posted, it seems to immediately show up on the "hot" list by default, even though it has zero comments. This is in addition to already being on the "latest topics" list.

Maybe topics are making the list based on the number of "views" regardless of the number of comments? Or maybe the selection logarithm got muddled? Or, as stated in the title, maybe it's just me ;-)

Anyway. The "latest" and "recently commented" tabs are perfect---would anyone else like to see SE make the "hot in talk" more, um... I don't know... "hot" maybe?