Community Suggestion: Enable alternate, natural sort algorithm for articles
Enable alternate, natural sort algorithm for articles
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by VoidWatcher
accepted
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently we are able to sort articles in a category alphabetically. This works most of the time, but if we have numeric values in the article title it orders them unintuitively.
Example:
How does this feature request address the current situation?
It would create an alternate sort option where numerics in article titles are sorted naturally.
What I would expect:
What are other uses for this feature request?
This would simplify organizing articles that have numeric values in them. Examples:
- Hero Protagonist - Book (1, 2, 3, 10, 23, 99, ...)
- Having a separate article noting the changes between each book for a character's personality / story goal / foils / etc.
- Dogmatic Agenda (79, 592, 1130, ...)
- Separate treatises that were the inciting incident for a major religion's schisms.
- Juror (9, 11, 20, ...)
- Secret character names in a trial before a big reveal.
How can this be implemented?
As a presumptuous outsider who knows nothing about your backend, I of course know exactly what needs to be done. Here's some helpful links:
- https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.natsort.php
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/localeCompare
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1262239/natural-sort-order-string-comparison-in-java-is-one-built-in
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4836710/is-there-a-built-in-function-for-string-natural-sort
And because I know exactly how you want your UI to look, here's a mockup:
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We're putting this under investigation, as there are technical limitations we have to work around (related to the structure of the database, as well as scaling issues), but we'll try! In the meantime, I suggest naming your single-digit chapters 01, 02, etc so they are sorted as you expect them to be
Current score
19/300 Votes · +3703 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by Gregorian
on 2024-12-11 06:07 -
+100
by spooktacular
on 2024-12-08 02:53 -
+300
by A Revolutionary Dragon
on 2024-12-06 23:58 -
+100
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2024-12-02 19:24 -
+300
by AvalonArcana
on 2024-12-01 05:15 -
+300
by DesNordlund
on 2024-11-24 11:49 -
+300
by illumiinae
on 2024-11-22 16:51 -
+1
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+1
by soaptoaster
on 2024-11-20 18:49Qualified support: I agree with The Big G that "03" should not be placed before "1", but I generally endorse that a natural sort would be nice.
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+1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-11-19 08:50 -
+100
by Rilameth
on 2024-11-17 21:32 -
+300
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+100
by Maz_Cat
on 2024-11-17 01:28 -
+100
by The Big G
on 2024-11-16 21:45Qualified support. I'm in favor of numerical ordering, but not if "03" gets placed before "1". If I want something to appear before Chapter 1 I'll call it "Chapter 0.3".
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+300
by Amancham
on 2024-11-16 20:13 -
+100
by LittleRaider
on 2024-11-16 13:04 -
+100
by kaixabu
on 2024-11-16 11:38 -
+300
by Jacob-W
on 2024-11-16 06:25 -
+300
by BenScerri
on 2024-11-16 05:57 -
+300
by VoidWatcher
on 2024-11-15 18:24
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