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Q&A Sorting answers without a page reload

Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers: Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion. For cases where ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 23d ago by trichoplax‭

Question feature-request answers sorting
#3: Post edited by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2024-12-30T08:18:24Z (23 days ago)
Add benefits of this change
  • Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers:
  • > ![The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fjswpomkf03z2aexhsgykfb5xsdv)
  • Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion.
  • For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no pagination links), could these buttons instead sort the answers in place, rather than the user having to wait for a page reload?
  • ## Browsers without JavaScript
  • For users who have disabled JavaScript in their browser, the buttons could fall back to being links that perform the page reload that we have currently, so there is no loss of functionality for these users.
  • ## Affected questions
  • Currently, pagination is added for questions with more than 20 answers, which is rare in most communities, so the majority of questions would benefit from this change. Questions with large numbers of answers are usually only seen in contest categories. For example:
  • - [Challenges in Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/categories/20)
  • - [Photo Contest in Outdoors](https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19)
  • - [Contests,Critique in Photography](https://photography.codidact.com/categories/22)
  • - [Challenges in Cooking](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/31)
  • - [Challenges in Judaism](https://judaism.codidact.com/categories/34)
  • - [Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49)
  • Even there, questions with more than 20 answers are very rare. The only current examples are [6 posts in Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20).
  • The only other examples are from communities that imported questions from Stack Exchange:
  • - [Outdoors with 3](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Scientific Speculation with 117](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Judaism with 1](https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • The highest example, Scientific Speculation, still only has around 10% of its questions having more than 20 answers.
  • Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers:
  • > ![The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fjswpomkf03z2aexhsgykfb5xsdv)
  • Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion.
  • For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no pagination links), could these buttons instead sort the answers in place, rather than the user having to wait for a page reload?
  • ## Benefits
  • To someone on a fast internet connection, this change may seem of trivial benefit. However, many users have a slow internet connection and to them this could make a difference of several seconds, or more in the case of an intermittent connection.
  • Some users may be in parts of the world where fast internet is unavailable, or unaffordable. Some users may have fast internet access at home, but only slow or intermittent access when away from home.
  • For example, if I am travelling by train my internet connection speed will vary widely from very fast to very slow, and often has several minutes with no connection at all. I've had occasions where I open a page and then go into a railway tunnel. This means several minutes of being able to read the page I'm on, but not being able to reload the page (and therefore not being able to sort the results).
  • ## Browsers without JavaScript
  • For users who have disabled JavaScript in their browser, the buttons could fall back to being links that perform the page reload that we have currently, so there is no loss of functionality for these users.
  • ## Affected questions
  • Currently, pagination is added for questions with more than 20 answers, which is rare in most communities, so the majority of questions would benefit from this change. Questions with large numbers of answers are usually only seen in contest categories. For example:
  • - [Challenges in Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/categories/20)
  • - [Photo Contest in Outdoors](https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19)
  • - [Contests,Critique in Photography](https://photography.codidact.com/categories/22)
  • - [Challenges in Cooking](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/31)
  • - [Challenges in Judaism](https://judaism.codidact.com/categories/34)
  • - [Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49)
  • Even there, questions with more than 20 answers are very rare. The only current examples are [6 posts in Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20).
  • The only other examples are from communities that imported questions from Stack Exchange:
  • - [Outdoors with 3](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Scientific Speculation with 117](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Judaism with 1](https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • The highest example, Scientific Speculation, still only has around 10% of its questions having more than 20 answers.
#2: Post edited by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2024-10-26T13:46:50Z (3 months ago)
Add details of how rare paginated questions are
  • Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers:
  • > ![The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fjswpomkf03z2aexhsgykfb5xsdv)
  • Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion.
  • For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no pagination links), could these buttons instead sort the answers in place, rather than the user having to wait for a page reload?
  • ## Browsers without JavaScript
  • For users who have disabled JavaScript in their browser, the buttons could fall back to being links that perform the page reload that we have currently, so there is no loss of functionality for these users.
  • Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers:
  • > ![The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fjswpomkf03z2aexhsgykfb5xsdv)
  • Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion.
  • For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no pagination links), could these buttons instead sort the answers in place, rather than the user having to wait for a page reload?
  • ## Browsers without JavaScript
  • For users who have disabled JavaScript in their browser, the buttons could fall back to being links that perform the page reload that we have currently, so there is no loss of functionality for these users.
  • ## Affected questions
  • Currently, pagination is added for questions with more than 20 answers, which is rare in most communities, so the majority of questions would benefit from this change. Questions with large numbers of answers are usually only seen in contest categories. For example:
  • - [Challenges in Writing](https://writing.codidact.com/categories/20)
  • - [Photo Contest in Outdoors](https://outdoors.codidact.com/categories/19)
  • - [Contests,Critique in Photography](https://photography.codidact.com/categories/22)
  • - [Challenges in Cooking](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/31)
  • - [Challenges in Judaism](https://judaism.codidact.com/categories/34)
  • - [Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/49)
  • Even there, questions with more than 20 answers are very rare. The only current examples are [6 posts in Challenges in Code Golf](https://codegolf.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20).
  • The only other examples are from communities that imported questions from Stack Exchange:
  • - [Outdoors with 3](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Scientific Speculation with 117](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • - [Judaism with 1](https://judaism.codidact.com/posts/search?search=answers%3A%3E20)
  • The highest example, Scientific Speculation, still only has around 10% of its questions having more than 20 answers.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2024-10-26T13:10:31Z (3 months ago) 
Sorting answers without a page reload
Below a question are buttons for sorting the answers:

> ![The three sorting buttons, Score, Active, and Age](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/fjswpomkf03z2aexhsgykfb5xsdv)

Pressing one of these buttons results in a page reload, with the answers now sorted according to the chosen criterion.

For cases where all of the answers fit on a single page (no pagination links), could these buttons instead sort the answers in place, rather than the user having to wait for a page reload?

## Browsers without JavaScript
For users who have disabled JavaScript in their browser, the buttons could fall back to being links that perform the page reload that we have currently, so there is no loss of functionality for these users.
feature-request answers sorting