# Changing the default 'sort by' setting for search

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016 年 2 月 1 日午後 8:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847 "2016-02-01T20:13:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [2018 年 10 月 2 日午後 12:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847/7 "2018-10-02T12:05:43Z")

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I wasn’t aware of that shortcut. That’s helpful for me, though I already have an Alfred search that does what I need.

For my users though, it would be better to change the default behavior of the forum. It’s been requested a lot of times, and I’ve seen users use the forum over screen sharing as they try to find some piece of information tucked away in a post.

Again, I’m not suggesting this is a good practice for most forums, but because we have a lot of similarly named topics, it would help with retrieval.

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