Timeline for Changes to answer sorting menu: moving menu, "Newest" sort option, renaming sort options
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| Feb 8, 2022 at 17:40 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @AnitaTaylor I like this and I'd say that putting highest score as the first option and marking it as default is consistent with the spirit of my feedback, thank you. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 17:35 | comment | added | Anita Taylor StaffMod | We decided on a different implementation that includes having "Highest score" be the first choice in a dropdown menu. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 18:22 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @ColleenV No offense taken; it seemed to me that the order was a bit haphazard and I couldn't make a sensible argument for how it's organized now, so I made a couple suggestions to give an order that would make sense to me. I'm sure there are arguments for keeping it the way it is (yours and others) or for further permutations. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 18:13 | history | edited | V2BlastStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed header formatting (for accessibility)
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| Jan 31, 2022 at 18:01 | comment | added | ColleenV | Weird, I expect the things I'm most likely to be looking for to be top-left in a UI, and things I'm less likely to need be bottom-right. I don't see any value in changing the order from what people are used to in such a small menu though. (And I mean that as "it's weird that I see it completely differently than you do", not "your view is weird". Sorry if that came across wrong.) I see that menu as a way to change from score sorting, not as a way to tell me the list is sorted by score. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:57 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @ColleenV I just tend to expect default options to come first in most menus. I figured it would be less impactful to change the order now, when the positions and list of options are changing as well, rather than changing it later. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:55 | comment | added | ColleenV | Are you concerned that the currently selected sort might not be visible if it's last? Frankly, I see more benefit to preserving the existing order as much as possible. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:51 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @ColleenV Yes, probably, but it's a "sticky" selection that gets preserved across pages after you make a selection. I'd expect the default option to come first and start highlighted, because it's not just an option but also information about how things are currently being done. Personally I'd also probably click it more often than the others because I tend to use it as my default but often switch to the newest (especially when moderating) and then back again; however, that's not my motivation for putting it first. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:48 | comment | added | ColleenV | If it is the default, would it be the least likely one you want to click? | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:25 | history | answered | Bryan Krause | CC BY-SA 4.0 |