I don't think I have asked this before, but is there any way of sorting a list (such as stories by a given authoor, or in a particular universe, say, by the score that I gave them, please? If not, could we please have such an ability? Thanks!
I don't think I have asked this before, but is there any way of sorting a list (such as stories by a given authoor, or in a particular universe, say, by the score that I gave them, please? If not, could we please have such an ability? Thanks!
I would probably not implement this. It would be a huge load on the database.
Maybe there is a way to do it on the client side, but that makes pagination by such a sort order almost impossible.
Other than the fact that it would require changing most SQL queries on the site.
Okay, understandable. Maybe all I really need is a way of locating stories that I liked - by whatever author - that (are still available and that) I haven't read for quite some time!
Advanced search has the option of selecting stories we have voted on. Can also select stories we have read. The two selected together will show only stories we've read and voted on, plus whatever else we searched on.
Premier profile is needed for this type of search.
Advanced search has the option of selecting stories we have voted on
Yes, but this picks both the stories I've marked highly, that I might want to read again sometime, as well as the stories I've marked down and wouldn't want to touch with the proverbial bargepole!
The ability in advanced search to select those I've scored more than a particular value would fit the bill (and a useful alternative to the more generalized facility that the boss has already ruled out as too expensive).
The ability in advanced search to select those I've scored more than a particular value would fit the bill
I've never flagged a story, but you can use that feature. Flag stories you liked and might want to read again. Then you can choose "flagged only" in the Advanced Search.
It won't do any good for the stories you've already read and might want to read again, but you can flag stories from this point forward. And you can do a one-time search for stories you've read, check the score, and flag those that you gave a high score.
As mentioned elsewhere, you can also use the flag feature. I use it for things I want to filter out of future searches. I also use a combination of a flag and my own tag to indicate the titles that are too large to email to my kindle account and would need direct download.
I like that the stuff I want to remove from future searches, which are often resulting in kindle email delivery, are flagged and thus not presented to email.
You could use the self tagging option to create a group of titles that are your all time favorites for re-reading.
You will need to rely on the overall score for sorting the results of the searches. The index to allow fast access to scores for the circa 60k titles becomes very unworkable for 60k titles times number of users.
I've long wanted so search based on the score I've given. With a few thousand stories read, it takes a long time to step through stories for "Mine: 9" or "Mine: 10".
Perhaps you can add the user's score to the history csv download to allow us to sort/search offline.
I've long wanted so search based on the score I've given. With a few thousand stories read, it takes a long time to step through stories for "Mine: 9" or "Mine: 10".
This one is doable.
Done.
I've updated the 'Advanced Search' form so that the 'Voted' menu is not only 3 options.
Now the menu is 'Not voted for', 'Any Vote' and 1 thru 10.
If you select 'Not voted for' then the search will return stories you've never voted for, 'Any Vote' will return only stories you voted for (any value) and a selection of the digits will return stories you've voted that value for.
Thanks, this will work for me, though I will have to repeat the search with different numbers: first search for the 10's I have not read recently, then when those have been reread, try again for next number down.
What did you think of Christopher's suggestion of adding an extra field to the downloadable history file? I'd then be able to sort and filter as much as I want with no further load on your servers. (But it wold be nice to have a link to the 'more info' page for the story, if that's cheap to generate. And I can easily think of other candidate columns...)
What did you think of Christopher's suggestion of adding an extra field to the downloadable history file?
Not complicated. Done.
Lazeez mentioned it as an option so I asked him since 1-10 seemed to be identical to Any Vote. Perhaps he meant a specific rating within the range of 1-10.
Lazeez mentioned it as an option so I asked him since 1-10 seemed to be identical to Any Vote
Aha. What he said was: "Now the menu is 'Not voted for', 'Any Vote' and 1 thru 10."
So you have 3 options:
1) Not voted for
2) Any vote
3) a number in the range of 1 thru 10 (not 1-10)
You know, it's very simple to go to the advanced search page and click the 'vote' menu and see what it looks like.
Search by my score: Done
History download with my score: Done
History download with 'more info' link: Done
Wow! That was responsive, exactly what I and @solitude requested, and implemented simply and intuitively.
Thank you!