How are the badges sorted within a category on https://discourse.example.com/badges ? It seems that each category is first sorted by Bronze/Silver/Gold, and then maybe alphabetically? Can someone confirm? Is there any way to change the sorting order?

[image] downey: first sorted by Bronze/Silver/Gold, and then alphabetically This is almost correct - they’re first sorted by badge group (“Getting Started”, “Community”, “Posting”, “Trust Level”). Currently, the only facility to change the sort order is to add more groupings.

@riking This is not the case though for user cards, right? Any advice on ordering those? [image] Badges more prominent on profile page Feature I stopped worrying about badges in our forums when only 3 would be shown by default, and I had no way to control which were the m…

I believe that’s ordered by decreasing order of how many other people have the badge. (Decreasing “rarity”)

How are the badges sorted within a category?

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jesselperry (Jesse Perry) April 14, 2015, 7:16pm 3

@riking This is not the case though for user cards, right? Any advice on ordering those?

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How are the badges sorted within a category?

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