Alternative Topic Sorting

[baris]

Just committed https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/7610c11cd1b9de53ce185227ab80f86d55d3bd69, this is a pretty big change even though it's just ~300 lines of code. It changes how we store the main post so that alternative sorting works.

If anyone decides to upgrade please make a backup of your database just incase something goes wrong, I have tested it on this forums dataset and it seemed OK but you never know :). Will do more testing as we get closer to 0.5.0.

There are 3 options to sort oldest to newest, newest to oldest and most votes. The sorting can be changed from a dropdown in the bar below the main post and it is saved as a user setting. The admin can also select a default setting from the ACP.

Let us know if you encouter any bugs.

[A Former User]

Awesome! Is this on mobile too? Can't find it.

[a_5mith]

@zenkamal it is when logged in. You can set the default in admin if you like a specific one.

[julian]

@a_5mith Relevant xkcd

[a_5mith]

@julian I was tempted to charge it for 20 minutes and taking the screenshot again for that exact reason.

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/GmD1WUT.png