The discussion revolves around the order of categories in various places on the platform. nXqd suggests making the order consistent, and also proposes using Select2 for the category dropdown on the top left corner. sam mentions that making categories display more consistently is on the roadmap for version 1.0.
codinghorror explains that there are two intentional orders for categories: one for browsing topics and another for creating topics. The order for creating topics is by size, with the most common categories first. nXqd and riking appreciate this idea, with riking noting that the latter is already implemented.
DanaRelayr revives the topic and asks if it’s possible to place a category at the top of the list without it being the most recently updated one, and if there’s a way to customize the order of categories.
I was hesitate to make this feature request. So I try to use the categories in every place [ top left corner, in category list and category dropdown] and really look into how i use. I find that it’d be nice if we have the categories dropdown on top left and the one we choose when creating post if they share the same order in categories page.
And further more, should we make the category on top left to be select2 instead of normal dropdown. I find select2 is really awesome and convenience.
Note that there are two orders of category, and this at least is intentional:
order for browsing topics
order for creating topic
In case #2, that should be ordered by size, aka number of topics in the category – you want people putting topics in the most common categories, not in random places.