Sorting on Collections (and some other suggestions)
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 11:46
I maintain (with some help) the LPC art collection. When I visit the page, the art is in the order which it was added to the collection (I think). Instead, it would be nice to have that collection ordered by the most popular art first. This should make the best art more easily accessible in very large collections like this one.
Other random thoughts on collections:
- Instead of sorting, maybe highlight popular art in a certain way (bronze/silver/gold like the badges?).
- Some sort of "subscribe for updates" that emails you when new art is added to the collection.
- Visible tags on the sidebar (like art has).
- Perhaps some sort of indication of what the collection's lowest-common licenses would be.
- Do I really deserve points for people favoriting the collection? I have a gold badge in "Popular", but most of those points are from the collection, not art.
These are all just random ideas. I'm not particularly attached to any of them.
As to sorting, I think you as a maintainer should have the ability to rearrange the order as you see fit. ("Should" in the sense that I think it would be a natural feature. Not in the sense that I think it is possible already.)
And yes, you do deserve points. Maintaining a collection is work just like creating art is (except that the former is an ongoing commitment). It deserves the same acknowledgement.
Speaking of which, your collection does not show under my favourites, only art does. Hence another suggestion: Show favourized collections among users' favourites. Or make them otherwise accessible, e.g. by listing them under users' collections.
I've discovered I actually can manually reorder the entries. It's very similar to the way you can order previews on the art submissions.
I suppose I could theoretically order the submissions manually, but there are currently 134 entries and keeping on top of that would be crazy.