It depends. I start with active, then hot, then new if I’m browsing for a long time. But usually active to hot is good.

When I do that the feed keeps reloading itself, making it very much unusable. Now I understand that to be a bug, but why advice something so broken?

Sort by topday since Hot is usually showing posts from 3 days ago

LPT: if you want, you can change your default sort settings. Click on your profile in the top right corner > settings > type and sort type.