Announcement New Feature - Sort By Total Reactions / Likes

[Nifty-Chicken]

We've added this great feature which allows you to toggle between the sort order of the thread:

• Chronological / Date (default)
• Total number of reactions

This should help bubble-up some of the "top" content withing a long thread.

Keep in mind: the first post is always at the top of the sort, regardless of how many reactions it has received.

Here's what the button looks like:

NOTE: This is TOTAL reactions (all reactions combined for a post). We may develop it out further in the future to sort by specific types of reactions... but that's a much bigger programming challenge / project!

Let us know what you think!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

I just noticed this!

 

[N F C]

Love it, love it, love it!

That sure made life easier for me, thanks Rob!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Wow, it's fun to go back to threads like this and sort by reactions:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...e-need-your-pics.1316696/?view=reaction_score

 

[Kusanar]

Ok, I just played with it on this thread, it took the 3rd post and put it as the 1st one which I expected, but it actually labeled it as the 1st. Is there a way to "lock" the post number to the individual comment so that you can still tell what order they belong in when they are sorted by reaction?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Ok, I just played with it on this thread, it took the 3rd post and put it as the 1st one which I expected, but it actually labeled it as the 1st. Is there a way to "lock" the post number to the individual comment so that you can still tell what order they belong in when they are sorted by reaction?

There are pros / cons to both, but we're open to suggestions and what is most user-friendly!

 

[OlympicChick]

I just used it and I like it.

 

[Kiki]

Awesome!

 

[Kusanar]

There are pros / cons to both, but we're open to suggestions and what is most user-friendly!

The only con I can think of is if they are locked to the comment and a mod has to go clean up, that would make an obvious hole in the thread where you can see how many posts were deleted etc. Not sure if that's actually a problem or not, you can usually tell it's been messed with anyway.

 

[aart]

Contests judged by likes is the only function I see it being useful for.
We are much too much like/points/trophy oriented as it is.