Implement either stable sorting or multi-column sorting of blogs.

[gskt17]

Currently, there is no way to sort by more than one column. This can be an issue when dealing with very large numbers of blogs. For example, when trying to sort by most recent full scan, offline blogs will be included. However, if one then sorts by blog status, online blogs will be reordered arbitrarily.

[thomas694]

Thanks for your feature suggestion.

[LOROGO]

Hi, I am interested in solving this issue. Can I be assigned please ?

[thomas694]

Hi,
sure, here you go. I've assigned it to you.

[LOROGO]

I have implemented stable sorting as per suggestion

1. unsorted (sorted by date added)

2. sorted by name

3. sorted by rating

So now if they are equal in current sorting, then the last sorting is applied - Stable sorting.

I have tried to implement multi-column sorting by having sorting priorities or something, but it doesn't seem user friendly. I can't figure out a way to make it intuitive.

Is this sufficient to resolve this issue or do you have some suggestions/ideas how the multi-column sorting could work ?

[LOROGO]

For comparison the same steps in current version leads to this:

[thomas694]

Thanks, that looks good.
I don't think there's any need to complicate things unnecessarily. Your solution already solves the problem.
Please create a PR for this.

[johnflint1985]

I can also suggest a couple of things to add once you have time and desire to do so,

1. If you want to change from API to SVC - you can only do this individually blog by blog. It used to be able to change it in bulk. It is more useful and saves a lot of time.
2. Maybe a good feature can be some sort of "save" that will save your comments on the blogs as well as the way you've sorted it up. Because from time to time all my additions and notes are lost and the way I want the columns to show up changes back to original almost every time I close the application. So in an ideal situation save feature will make it save the way you set it up and your notes as well.

[thomas694]

@LOROGO
Thank you for your first contribution and PR to our TumblThree project.
Your PR has been merged and you've been added to our list of contributors.
We would be happy to receive more contributions from you in the future. Maybe you can help us with one or the other issue.