Better label for views trending sort

[UnlimitedCookies]

Describe the current behavior
Sorting by views does roughly sort by views, but not exactly.

Steps to reproduce:

https://peertube.debian.social/videos/local?sort=-trending&c=true&s=2
Shows 39 > 6 > 83 > 4

Describe the expected behavior
It should accurately sort by views.

• PeerTube instance:

  • version: 3.4.0
  • NodeJS version: v12.22.6
  • Ffmpeg version: 4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1

• Browser name, version and platforms on which you could reproduce the bug: Firefox and chromium

[Chocobozzz]

We still use the old trending algorithm, so the label should be more like "Views in last x days".

[UnlimitedCookies]

@Chocobozzz Now what would be the way to sort by absolute number of views? Like most users expected this filter to behave according to the label that was used previously.

[UnlimitedCookies]

@Chocobozzz Now what would be the way to sort by absolute number of views? Like most users expected this filter to behave according to the label that was used previously.

@Chocobozzz gentle and friendly ping :)

[Chocobozzz]

Now what would be the way to sort by absolute number of views? Like most users expected this filter to behave according to the label that was used previously.

You can use -views query sort param.

[UnlimitedCookies]

Now what would be the way to sort by absolute number of views? Like most users expected this filter to behave according to the label that was used previously.

You can use -views query sort param.

?sort=-views seems to work, but why is this option not selectable in the drop-down?

[Chocobozzz]

We prefer to not put all available sort options in the dropdown to not confuse users.

[UnlimitedCookies]

Personally, I would consider this a highly essential sort option, and I do not fully apprehend how this would confuse users. To the contrary, I find the filters "best", "hot" and "recent views" way more confusing as they don't communicate how videos are ranked, like a filter by absolute amount of views would.

[Chocobozzz]

I think you're right. We changed the sort select to implicitly use the Best algorithm when Hot is used (so we can remove "Best") and added the Global Views sort option in db19581 and 2b0d17c