Topic List Sort - Random

[anderer]

Hello,

it would be great to see an additional sorting option for the topics - random.

my use case is that we have over 100 teaching/learning units (each with its own post in one category) - and we would like to present them “equally” as in no preferred order neither by creation, views, activity etc.

This use case might also support people who use dicourse for presenting photos etc. in individual posts - and then using the tiles/grid topic list view to present them.

I browsed through meta and only found this here:

There is a previous feature request/discussion/use case - highlighting that a random sort would be preferable in case of polling/voting

Contest Mode - Random topic list sort

On reddit, when you want to to capture suggestions and wanna minimize bias they provide “Contest Mode”: this thread is in contest mode - contest mode randomizes comment sorting, hides scores, and collapses replies by default. Source Different from reddit, we would do this at category level, randomizing topic sorting in a category and hiding votes. After the contest is over, the admin can revert the order to votes.

[Lilly]

haven’t seen a topic randomizer yet, but there is this theme component that @merefield put together that has a lot of topic list preview options that may be of interest to you.

Topic List Previews Theme Component

This is now a Theme Component but has the option to add a complementary plugin. [GitHub-Mark-32px] Repository: get the code here: https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-tc-topic-list-previews Install guide: Install a theme or theme component This can be complemented with the ‘sidecar plugin’: https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-topic-previews-sidecar to add the following features: ‘actions’ (bookmarking, linking and liking from Topic List) Thumbnail Picker in the Topic Meta Editor. …

[anderer]

yes, thanks - that s exactely the one that i am using : )