Add Sorting Algorithm Feature To Existing Website

We have a website where users post video clips. We now want to sort the clips using Reddit's Hot Story Ranking algorithm. Allow users to like and dislike clips. A user can only like or dislike once per clip but the user can go between like and dislike but the total count will never be greater than 1 or -1. (Same as Reddit) Allow users to sort clips by Game/HOT. You can use [login to view URL] endpoint to cache/populate an auto complete or a dropdown menu. In the clip database there is a Game property on it that has the game name to match it against. The clips returned should come back sorted by the game and if the user does not decide to sort by game the default clips returned should just be the HOT clips for all games. HOT is an algorithm: Please Review the article heading: Digging into the story ranking code: [login to view URL] Below the heading will be the definition of the HOT ranking algorithm HOT Algorithm in Python: from datetime import datetime, timedelta from math import log epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1) def epoch_seconds(date): td = date - epoch return [login to view URL] * 86400 + [login to view URL] + (float([login to view URL]) / 1000000) def score(ups, downs): return ups - downs def hot(ups, downs, date): s = score(ups, downs) order = log(max(abs(s), 1), 10) sign = 1 if s > 0 else -1 if s < 0 else 0 seconds = epoch_seconds(date) - 1134028003 return round(sign * order + seconds / 45000, 7) Instead of ups vs downs, it would be likes and dislikes. The Tech Stack: Node/Express, Mongodb, Handlebars, Materialize