The instance list needs a sort menu

[opusforlife2]

Some services have such a huge number of instances that it makes it difficult to make sense of the whole thing. A sort menu would really help here.

Some options:

• Alphabetical order (instance name)
• Alphabetical order (country of the instance)
• Presence/absence of Cloudflare CDN
• Latency (after test done)

[ManeraKai]

Alphabetical order (country of the instance)

This requires more information from the instances fetcher.

[opusforlife2]

Ideally, this info should be provided by upstream, I think? It would be pretty inefficient to have to ping instances to find out their countries. But I'm not sure if all services' instance APIs provide country info.

[IkelAtomig]

Maybe we could sort by Cloudflare and Non-Cloudflare as we have that data already fetched by the Instance fetcher. Possibly Alphabetical too.

But will not be sorted by latency.

[opusforlife2]

Thanks for adding the feature!

But will not be sorted by latency.

The option could be greyed out until the user manually performs a latency test? From what I've seen, the extension permanently saves that info until the test is done again.

[ManeraKai]

No, bc we removed Latency Test.

[opusforlife2]

@ManeraKai Now that the latency test has been re-added, could this be reconsidered?