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There are a lot of feature requests based on sorting a set of questions, gathered by tabs or by searching, like this one.

How about we add a sort: option to the search box, for example sort:newest and then the answer set will be sorted accordingly? Is this possible with the new elasticsearch search being implemented?

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  • Can't you already do this by just clicking on the tabs? Well, for some sorts, at least.
    – Charles
    Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 19:46
  • @Charles, the newest option works for some things, but you can't get two to happen at once. So if you use the MyTags button, you can't sort by newest.
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 19:47
  • Oh, good point.
    – Charles
    Commented Dec 27, 2012 at 19:49
  • I don't think this would work the way you're envisioning, since the tags are AND-ed (always have been), hitting enter on that search box wouldn't yield results for most people with more than a few tags, if it did then you could still bookmark the search page of answers:0 on the newest tab.
    – Nick Craver Mod
    Commented Dec 30, 2012 at 11:04
  • @Nick, can't you force an OR on the tags. Of course, I think the real answer is to have a favoritetags option, that would search based on your favorite tags. My prior feature request on that is here.
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 7:40
  • @Nick, wow if that was you who just downvoted that post, you were real quick.
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 7:42
  • @LanceRoberts - nope, but I know who did! dun dun dun! I need sleep.
    – Nick Craver Mod
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 7:43
  • @Nick, Have a Happy New Year!
    – Lance Roberts
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 7:43
  • @LanceRoberts - same to you! I'll take a look at the favorite tags thing but from some initial tests here the performance really isn't good for those who'd abuse it (having many tags, often including wildcards) exact string matches are one thing (tree on the heap is very efficient, etc.), partial compares are much worse.
    – Nick Craver Mod
    Commented Dec 31, 2012 at 7:46

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