Timeline for Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, clearer descriptions
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| Feb 10, 2022 at 17:13 | comment | added | Anita Taylor StaffMod | Agree with Oleg that sorting shouldn't be a rep-gated privilege. We will, however, work on adding an indicator that the user is no longer using the default sort to hopefully help avoid confusion. | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 17:12 | history | edited | Anita TaylorStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2022 at 14:43 | comment | added | Random Person | @SebastianSimon I guess reset to the default. | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 12:23 | comment | added | Sebastian Simon | I also see a problem with what happens when you go below the reputation threshold and lose that privilege again. Will the sort order be kept or will it be reset to the default? | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 16:43 | comment | added | VLAZ | Since then it has happened other times but now at least I know where the sorting buttons are. And moreover, I occasionally change the sorting order, when I need to. A dropdown is not really that easy to accidentally click on and change the value. Not impossible but harder than a simple button. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 16:43 | comment | added | VLAZ | With the current sorting buttons it's exceptionally easy to click on them by accident and change the sorting order without even knowing you did it. It has happened to me multiple times. The first time it lead me to this MSO question which explained what sorting was and how to change it. The second time I also had to go there - this time at least I knew what it was, I forgot where you change it from. And in both cases I had not consciously clicked the buttons. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 20:37 | comment | added | ColleenV | Preventing people from using a feature because they might get confused by it is not the right answer. People should only be prevented from using a feature if they are likely to do some kind of harm by using it improperly. If users are often baffled by the way a feature behaves, it's better to improve the design of the feature or its docs. I think SE suffers from the lack of a dedicated support site for the public side. If I go to support.xbox.com, it shows me a page of the most common problems and some categories to narrow my search. Meta.SE is much harder to use for non-veteran users. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 19:06 | comment | added | 0Valt | Why would sorting be a rep-gated privilege of all things? It is just a sorting option on a field, just like all the rest. If we go by the logic that someone could forget they did something when it is clearly indicated in the UI, we should get rid of everything that can be forgotten: you can forget you posted an answer, that you edited, sorted, filtered, ignored, watched, suggested - this is no ground for getting rid of those features, isn't it? The same is true for sorting options. | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 19:03 | history | answered | Random Person | CC BY-SA 4.0 |