What are these ‘superior’ alternatives?

Yes, sorry. I have

COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS: '[
        "TopAll",
        "TopDay",
        "TopHour" ]'

I added Top Hour. I left the run schedule at 240 minutes but it seems to keep up pretty well. I’m regularly subscribing to new communities from the All tab

I can vouch for community seeder, my personal instance all page looks as populated as my kbin.social account.

I use a reverse proxy so I still use DNS name to access internally.