Discourse 2025.12.0-latest, Discourse Templates 2.5.0
Composer → Insert template
The templates are displayed in a “random” order – neither alphabetically nor by timestamp – which makes selecting a template harder than necessary.
Feature request:
Make the template list in the composer sortable.
additional note:
The templates were displayed in alphabetical order before. The actual “random” order appeared with the recent update.
Looks like the sort order was changed so that the most used templates appear at the top, in UX: Improve template filtering with usage count and preserving tags by Alteras1 · Pull Request #35881 · discourse/discourse · GitHub… but there’s no indication of this, so it can certainly appear random, especially if you were accustomed to the previous alphabetical ordering.
This isn’t a bug because it’s working as indented, so I’m going to move it to a feature request for more sorting options. Thanks for the feedback!
Imagine a heterogeneous team using different template classes. In that context, “most used” quickly becomes ambiguous – which is exactly the case in our use scenario.
The UX would be more satisfying if you either allowed a sorting option or, if you stick with the current heuristic, provided a way to limit the selection to specific template classes.
The template plugin already supports multiple categories for storing templates. This could be leveraged to implement the latter approach.
Thanks