Here are a collection of my thoughts on first using the faceted search at /project/modules (my initial impressions can be summed up as "Cool", followed by "This is completely broken", followed by "No wait, hmm...ok...wait...hmm").

* What order does http://d6.drupal.org/project/modules default to? The UI claims it is sorted by title, descending, but that is not true.
* Sorting by title is confusing for lower case. It appears to be sorting A-Z then a-z. Case insensitive sorting would be more humane. This is particularly confusing for the jQuery related modules.
* Sorting by author is confusing, since the authors name is not part of the teaser. Also, it puts the modules owned by Anonymous first on the list (which is weird, because then comes aaron, who comes before Ainur, so capitalization is not treated the same as it is for project name).
* And sorting by date is also confusing, because it is not clear what date is being used. The project teaser shows many dates (one for each supported version), but those dates are not what is being sorted by. It believe it is being sorted by the invisible date of the last CVS checkin.
* If I submit a search tearm, and then click one of the sort options to change the sort order, my search term is lost!!!

Suggestions
* Get the title to reflect what facets are being sorted by instead of just showing "Modules".
* Get the results count into the title, or somewhere obvious.
* It really needs a Drupal version facet (I am sure you know this :)
* Swap the position of the search and sort boxes. Search is much more important and useful.

Comments

starbow’s picture

Oops, on my first bullet, the triangle with the point down means ascending, not descending.
But it remains true that it is not sorted by title ascending or descending.

dww’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Thanks for testing and providing suggestions. However, webchick already started a thread about all of this where many of these problems were originally reported: #367068: Project download regressions. I pasted your comments into a reply over there, so let's just keep it all in one place.

Thanks!
-Derek