Reduce track choice neophilia a bit

diff --git a/CHANGES.html b/CHANGES.html
index 3e2635d0478cd639836f4e77cf0210f4ef089d20..495d8984ae7d17f187bbeff03b4e09d6d6164645 100644 (file)
--- 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 de043d629b34d950c09a8b253ef7f54cce0994b9..58526c5dfdff769e3763e3ffd8b66e2c8bdbabee 100644 (file)
--- 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 4c18b623956dfd755f7b6bf08c2eafceb67d4b8c..e63716e4c5fd175c95de73e7c47e922ce9658d0c 100644 (file)
--- 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);