Order for cards

[vsemozhetbyt]

Previously, in GitHub README.md or in the site, the snippets were sorted alphabetically. That was handy for casual consecutive reading. Currently, we have only the site with cards in a hardly understandable order. Can the alphabetical order be restored?

[Chalarangelo]

The current order is based on a recommendation engine we recently implemented. We will look into adding alphabetical order as an alternative sorting option.

[Chalarangelo]

Update for anyone interested: We will be delivering this feature sometime later in 2020 Q1, most likely around early March.

The expected behavior for this feature as well as related changes are:

• Three order types (popular, alphabetical, expertise).
• Default order will be popular.
• All orders will only either ascend or descend and users can fast forward to the last page and browse backwards.
• popular will be sorted in descending order. alphabetical and expertise will be sorted in ascending order.
• popular will handle value equality (i.e. same ranking value) by resorting to alphabetical order to sort out conflicts.
• alphabetical and expertise will handle value equality (i.e. same name or same expertise level) by resorting to popular order to sort out conflicts.
• Each order type will have its own slug subprefix - /p/ for popular, /a/ for alphabetical and /e/ for expertise.
• The /a/ subprefix for archived snippets should be converted to /v/ (vault) and existing links should be 301! redirected. Change archived snippet prefix #39

[Chalarangelo]

Starting work on this a little earlier than anticipated, should be able to release before the end of the month, if everything goes according to plan. There might a possible delay if we decide to bundle it up with #64 and #69, but that is yet undecided.

[Chalarangelo]

Resolved in 6a4456e.