Questions tagged [sorting]
For questions related to the sort orderings of questions, answers, and other lists on Stack Overflow.
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Opinion-Based questions don't remember sort order and always default to newest first
I noticed that the responses on an opinion-based question I was reading had been sorted by newest first. I changed the view to be oldest first, however, the next opinion-based post I read had reset to ...
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How is the ordering of staging questions decided when the user selects "sort by newest"? [duplicate]
I have noticed that staging questions aren't sorted by posting time even when when the user selects "sort by newest":
How is the ordering of staging questions decided when the user selects &...
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Staging ground questions should be properly sorted [duplicate]
Staging ground questions don't respect the sort by newest when listing questions. Feature request: staging ground questions should be properly sorted (i.e., not appear before other questions).
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Display answers I've upvoted first [duplicate]
I always upvote Q/A's to serve as a breadcrumb to myself. If I see an upvoted Q/A, I know I encountered that problem before and found the Q/A helpful.
With that in mind, it would be nice to have a ...
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Allow sorting of questions in the Staging Ground by creation date
At the moment, the only available sorting for questions is either by status or by last activity.
However, neither is stable enough so that on refresh you get (mostly) the same items. This makes it ...
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Is the "trending" sort broken?
I stumbled across this question:
How can I speed up Python's 'unittest' on muticore machines?
By default, I have the Trending (recent votes count more) option enabled to sort the answers.
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Link to sorting questions by new, active broken in Stack Overflow for Teams, but not for main site [closed]
If I go to stackoverflow.com/c/myteamname/questions, and click on the link for "Newest", "Active", etc., I get taken to stackoverflow.com/c/myteamname/posts?tab=Newest, where I get ...
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Prevent sorting from being switched to Date Modified every time the site is visited
Whenever I open Stack Overflow or any new page, the sorting gets reset to "Date Modified (Newest First)". I want it to be "Highest Score" by default. Even if I switch back to that (...
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Suggestions for the "Trending sort available (i)" label
We've got Trending: A new answer sorting option for a while now, which is being advertised on every question with more than one visible answer like this:
My complaint is particularly about this "...
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Trending: A new answer sorting option
Update 2022-08-09: New votes now update Trending scores immediately instead of waiting for the cache to expire
As part of the Outdated Answers project, we ran an experiment to try and surface trending ...
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Results of the Trending sort experiment
In this post, we'll go over how the Trending sort experiment went and why we chose Decay-50 as our preferred choice as announced in Trending: A new answer sorting option. We'll summarize both the ...
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Sort in Collectives Page always sets to Newest
The Questions sort in the collectives page doesn't show the applied sort and is always set in "newest". The sorting selected seems to be applied. However, the user cant easily figure out ...
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When tied for votes, show accepted answer at top [duplicate]
Accepted answers are no longer at the top, but should be when tied. At time of writing, that doesn't seem to be the case (1). Please favor accepted answer in a tie.
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Reasonable limit of code to post when asking a question [duplicate]
I am a new user who is very new to programming. Recently I have been working on a fitness/dieting calculator. Currently, I am stuck on trying to add multiple items to an arraylist without using lots ...
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Is there a way to see the accepted answer first as was the case in the past?
We now have a drop-down menu for choosing how to order answers. What I can't find is a way to have them as in the past - accepted, then by score.
Is there still a way to see answers like that?
This is ...
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