From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:38:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Reduce track choice neophilia a bit
X-Git-Tag: 4.3~51
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/commitdiff_plain/6151ae7e03c567cb5c2287386362f2fed68a225c

Reduce track choice neophilia a bit
---

diff --git a/CHANGES.html b/CHANGES.html
index 3e2635d..495d898 100644
--- a/CHANGES.html
+++ b/CHANGES.html
@@ -75,6 +75,16 @@ span.command {
 
       </div>
 
+    <h3>Server</h3>
+
+      <div class=section>
+
+        <p>The selection bias for newly added tracks was reduced by half.  You
+        can put it back to the old very neophilic value with
+        &ldquo;<tt>new_bias 900000</tt>&rdquo; in the config file.</p>
+
+      </div>
+
     <h3>General</h3>
 
       <div class=section>
diff --git a/doc/disorder_config.5.in b/doc/disorder_config.5.in
index de043d6..58526c5 100644
--- a/doc/disorder_config.5.in
+++ b/doc/disorder_config.5.in
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ namepart ext    "(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+)$"                        $1 *
 .TP
 .B new_bias \fIWEIGHT\fR
 The weight for new tracks.
-The default is 900000, i.e. recently added tracks are a hundred times as likely
+The default is 450000, i.e. recently added tracks are a fifty times as likely
 to be picked as normal.
 .TP
 .B new_bias_age \fISECONDS\fR
diff --git a/lib/configuration.c b/lib/configuration.c
index 4c18b62..e63716e 100644
--- a/lib/configuration.c
+++ b/lib/configuration.c
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ static struct config *config_default(void) {
   c->new_max = 100;
   c->reminder_interval = 600;		/* 10m */
   c->new_bias_age = 7 * 86400;		/* 1 week */
-  c->new_bias = 9000000;		/* 100 times the base weight */
+  c->new_bias = 4500000;		/* 50 times the base weight */
   /* Default stopwords */
   if(config_set(&cs, (int)NDEFAULT_STOPWORDS, (char **)default_stopwords))
     exit(1);