I know that the issue has been discussed before and some progress has been made (and that many disagree that alphabetic sorting on topic title is useful), but to me it is. I am experimenting with Discourse to see if I can use it to replace NeuroDSS.com which contains neurosurgical classification and grading systems. The option that users can add their own classifications (and more) and discuss them on site is a great side benefit. Primarily however, I want users to go to categories easily and find the content they are looking for.
I managed to get the categories view first when accessing NeuroMind.cc, and modified @sam’s Minimal Topic List Design to allow the user to sort topics in alphabetical order by changing this piece in the header :
I think if you “need” to sort by title there is something wrong with your approach. As in, you should be using categories or tags for that information rather than embedding it in the title as a string.
That depends, I guess… If someone wants to “browse” through a certain category it may be helpful if the content is sorted. Otherwise a topic may be at a different position everytime.
I realize this is not the main purpose of Discourse, but to me the lack of it is currently holding me back of proceeding. Fortunately you also offer categories as JSON in which I can do sorting to create some mobile version myself, but I prefer not to.
We have a category explaining terms; a dictionary. Here alphabetic sorting would be handy to quickly scroll to the right term.
Why is endless scrolling a problem…? Couldn’t you just start with ‘A’ and load ‘B’ as the user scrolls down?
Or is the problem that the list can’t be made because to the browser not all topics are known yet, before the user scroll down?
It looks like this idea isn’t going to happen but just to share my use case - we have voting enabled for topics & want to enable users to vote for the stocks that they’d like us to add to our service so that they can invest in them (we’re a stockbroker).
The names of each topic within the dedicated category is the name of the stock.
Unless I’m missing something, it seems like the most useful way to order the list, within the category view, would be in alphabetical order, to make finding stocks that others have already requested easier.
I don’t think Tags would be right for this, as we’d only use each Tag once - one Tag for each of the stocks. And as we all know, a large proportion of users don’t use search.
My use case: One of the categories in my Discourse is a User Guide for a website. In the User Guide category I have Topics like “About”, “Getting Started”, “Searching”, etc. These Topics should be ordered in a specific way, rather than by last update or some other metric. If I could sort the Topics alphabetically, I could rename them to “1. About”, “2. Getting Started”, etc.
Können wir das bitte endlich haben? Es gab viele Anfragen mit verschiedenen erklärten Anwendungsfällen, die Menschen betreffen. Ich verstehe die gesamte Philosophie, gute Praktiken zu fördern, aber das hat mindestens vier Themen ausgelöst, von denen ich weiß, und zahlreiche Antworten, die dies fordern… zu argumentieren, dass wir es falsch machen, bedeutet an diesem Punkt so ziemlich, uns alle für dumm zu erklären
Bitte erlauben Sie es zumindest mit Abfragezeichenfolgen in der URL (?sort=title), damit Sie keine Zeit mit GUI-Ergänzungen verschwenden, aber widersetzen Sie sich dem nicht so sehr, dass es fast unmöglich wird.
Ich brauche es nicht standardmäßig. Ich möchte nur in der Lage sein, es zu tun.
In unserem Fall fügen wir Ganzzahlen zu Beitragstiteln als „Rang
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