Show latest list sorted by creation date

[Javier_Galan]

Hi, I have seen few topics with the solution I am looking for.

How I can sort topics by topic creation date?

Or is there any url I can browse to see this? Thanks!

I think my question is very similar to latest @abcoathup question in this post.

How can I order by topic creation date?

I want to order by topic creation date. The only option I have found is latest?order=created_at but this lists the topics based on the last activity date, so if topics have replies, then that impacts the order

However, this was not answered. How can I configure my discourse site so that when users enter the main address they jump directly to mysitedomain/latest?order=created ?

And additionally, when users press on the button latest, how I configure the site so that they are re-directed to mysitedomain/latest?order=created. ?

Thanks!

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This is not possible at the current time, nor is it planned.

You can use search, if you select “sort by latest topic”.

[Fer_Cazares]

Hi @codinghorror, can you point me the way to search how I can modify this? I would love to see the latest list sorted by creation date.

[Fer_Cazares]

I (kinda) solve this on my forum by using redirect links, thanks to this post:

Redirect Category to External URL

Is there some specific version of the API I should be using for this?

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Change yoursite.com for the name of your site.

The following script achieves the intended result when added to </head> via Customize:

<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8.19">
api.onPageChange(() => {
	if ( window.location.href === "https://yoursite.com/latest" ) {
		window.location.replace( "https://yoursite.com/latest?order=created" );
	}
});
</script>

NOTE: If you are a developer, please understand that I’m not. Please dont hate me for doing this I know this is not the proper way to do this.

[HeyRR]

I get this to work by modifying this component a litter bit, that is, adding a button for ‘sorted by date’

Custom Top Navigation Links

Summary Custom Top Navigation Links allows you to add links to Discourse top navigation. Preview Preview on theme-creator.discourse.org Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-nav-links-component New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Screenshot: Desktop [Capture] Mobile [Capture] Settings: Nav links — these need 3 parts: Name Descrip…

where I passed in a url query in setting by:

unfinished; unfinished; ?tags=unfinished
created-time; created-time; ?order=created

and check search param in the script:

  api.modifyClass("component:navigation-item", {
    active: Ember.computed("contentFilterMode", "filterMode", function() {
      let contentFilterMode = this.get("content").get("filterMode");

      if (decodeURIComponent(window.location.search) === location) { // check search param
        return contentFilterMode.includes(filter); // if includes this param, active = true;
      } else {
        return this._super(contentFilterMode, this.get("filterMode"));
      }
    })
  });

This works for me but this script will refresh whole page rather than just the inner part, is there a way I can make it only refresh inner topic component?

[Terrapop]

Hi @HeyRR, have you got this resolved. Would be interested as well as many of our members are requesting a possibility to order the latest page by creation date and not by activity date?

[HeyRR]

No luck, sorry, currently I just use the solution I mentioned above, I’m not super familiar with the structure.

[D_Merr]

We’d like to see this in our Discourse community. We are new to Discourse but currently finding it difficult to moderate our community and ensure no user feedback, questions etc slip through the cracks. Since we are all working across different time zones the handoff from one moderator to another can be tricky. It would be great if we could easily choose to see all activity created on a certain day. That way if there is a gap in our handover we would see any activity for the hours we were not ‘on call’ It would also help us to see who should be responding to activity based on when it was created.

[simonmic (Simon Michael)]

I’d like to add my vote for more support for this:

Some of us are very used to browsing things with a stable chronological order; this helps us use our human spatial “hardware” to keep track of what we have seen. A discourse’s shifting Latest view (coupled with all the other view options, and other UI elements) can feel a bit chaotic and stressful.

And, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in our new discourse understanding and explaining that “Latest” actually has two important variants, “Latest Active/Pinned” which you get if you click the site title, and “Latest Created” which you get if you click the Latest navigation link.

Currently “Latest Created” (?order=created) can be configured as default for the Categories view, but not for the Latest view.

We also quite miss having a “Latest Created/Pinned”. Currently, on Latest and Categories views we can show topics chronologically, or show pinned welcome topics at the top, but not both.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Yes I hear you.

I feel we need to rethink the “home page” setting in Discourse to allow any route to be a home page and give the flexibility to users to pick the home page they want. Currently we have 5 or 6 things on the menu but really we could allow 100s by allow a “custom…” for home page.

[simonmic (Simon Michael)]

Adding to the fun: I’ve noticed that when I navigate (various ways) to Top or Hot, they often but not always have ?order=created added to the url, which defeats their purpose. Haven’t figured out what triggers this one!