Currently watching categories is opt-out. On forums having lots of new topics, this results in a huge number of items in example.com/unread. I think the unread page would be far more useful if watching categories was opt-in. That way /unread would contain only the items a user is interested in from the start and they won't have to go ignore a bunch of categories in order for /unread to become useful.
Topic Sorting Feature Required under Categories
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If I remember correctly, you can change the order in the admin panel for all categories; not just one, however.
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@ankitpr89 I don't believe there is a way to sort topics by popularity. However, it is difficult to come up with a suitable algorithm to correctly elevate posts based on popularity while taking into account staleness of the post.
Simply put: If we sorted topics according to popularity, the most popular topic would be at the top forever
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This is quite an intersting read on sorting by popularity: http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2013/01/16/the-mathematics-of-reddit-rankings-or-how-upvotes-are-time-travel/
The trick is to let the votes' influence degrade over time.