Not disagreeing that it is complicated, but this isn’t Hot’s fault.
In fact, Hot brings simplicity to those who aren’t quite satisfied with Latest and Top. What about this implementation as an incremental step:
- When the user selects “Hot” in
Default Topic List, thenDefault Top PeriodandTopic List Sort Byare greyed out because they are not relevant to Hot.Default List Filterremains as a setting, since it is relevant to Hot as well. - If the user deselects Hot, then
Default Top PeriodandTopic List Sort Byare selectable again, keeping the value they had before Hot was selected.