Search sort by Oldest First

Trojan

Search has a "Newest First" sort option.

Can you add an "Oldest First" option to reverse the displayed results?

El Guapo!

Could you not do a "newest first" search and then just go to the last page of the search results and work backwards?

Boards.ie: Rónán

Trojan wrote: »

Search has a "Newest First" sort option.

Can you add an "Oldest First" option to reverse the displayed results?

We wrote the functionality in to the backed during the last big rewrite, we're just not providing the option in the UI at the moment. Shouldn't be a big deal getting it in, I'll take a look at it tomorrow hopefully.

In the interim you can swap the sort param from "newest" to "oldest" in the results URL, e.g.

boards.ie/search/submit/?query=trojan&sort=newest

to

boards.ie/search/submit/?query=trojan&sort=oldest

Trojan

Dean09, thanks for the suggested workaround - it's ok when doing one or two searches, but if doing searches regularly it gets a bit tedious

Boards.ie: Ronan wrote: »

We wrote the functionality in to the backed during the last big rewrite, we're just not providing the option in the UI at the moment. Shouldn't be a big deal getting it in, I'll take a look at it tomorrow hopefully.

In the interim you can swap the sort param from "newest" to "oldest" in the results URL, e.g.

boards.ie/search/submit/?query=trojan&sort=newest

to

boards.ie/search/submit/?query=trojan&sort=oldest

Good stuff, that's even better than the previous workaround - cheers.

Are there any other sort options implemented but not exposed in UI? Thanks, views etc?

Boards.ie: Danny

Trojan wrote: »

Are there any other sort options implemented but not exposed in UI? Thanks, views etc?

None accessible by URL surgery on the search URLs I'm afraid

Danny

Trojan

Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

None accessible by URL surgery on the search URLs I'm afraid

Danny

Cheers. I'm specifically thinking of "sort by post size" (i.e. number of characters/bytes) as a nice-to-have feature.

Boards.ie: Rónán

Those updates are live now.

Trojan wrote: »

Cheers. I'm specifically thinking of "sort by post size" (i.e. number of characters/bytes) as a nice-to-have feature.

That'd be slightly more tricky! Size / length wouldn't be a recognized attribute of a post (like views, replies, thanks, etc,) so we'd have to define that value ourselves and add it to the search "document" as its indexed in Solr.

Would require a bit more time to investigate and implement than we're currently able to invest at the moment unfortunately.

Out of interest, have you a use case for a "post size" sort ?

Trojan

Boards.ie: Ronan wrote: »

Those updates are live now.

Thank you!

Boards.ie: Ronan wrote: »

That'd be slightly more tricky! Size / length wouldn't be a recognized attribute of a post (like views, replies, thanks, etc,) so we'd have to define that value ourselves and add it to the search "document" as its indexed in Solr.

Would require a bit more time to investigate and implement than we're currently able to invest at the moment unfortunately.

Out of interest, have you a use case for a "post size" sort ?

Sure, although I don't think I can provide any that could be said to be high priority in any way. I think it can be used for a few things, roughly based on "large posts can be interpreted as more valuable" in certain contexts:

Did I write something more informative on topic X, or just lots of one-liners? (and show me the good ones) What are the largest posts in forum Y? (similar question, different motivation) Is user Z posting lots of short posts to bump post count? (not vital because the majority of these have <40 posts) Is user A a good contributor on this forum? (an alternative to top-poster, and more qualitative results.).

I think they're in the "it would be interesting to know...", not the "we need to know..." category.