Attempting to browse modules by some Term results in a view that is seemingly sorted by module (node) creation date. This is terribly unfriendly for users, trying to find a specific type of module, etc. Wouldn't alphabetic be a more sensible choice? (come to think of it, this should be user-selectable).

eg: Trying to find good/interesting access control modules:

Security
User access/authentication

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vm commented
Component: Site organization » Redesign

walking through the queue to see what I can clean up.

With solr deployed is this still an issue?

I know the links supplied still do what the issue states, but I guess with solr now handling search does anyone use the list by taxonomy term any more?

lyricnz?

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lyricnz commented

Yes, behaviour is the same, didn't you try it? :)

It's a very ordinary use case: looking at a module page, say http://drupal.org/project/cck, and want to see more modules in a similar topic, say "Content Construction Kit (CCK)", click on the term, and you end up http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/88 which is in what's essentially a totally incomprehensible order (to a user). This view needs to be sortable (by date, by name, by popularity, etc)

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http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/88 is ordered by date (and so is http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/74); why should it be an incomprehensible order?

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lyricnz commented

Ordering by date doesnt make sense to users - and the update date is a completely useless metric. Usability issue.

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If the users are looking at a view of all the projects tagged with a taxonomy term, is probably they are looking for a module without to know its name (otherwise they would go straight to http://drupal.org/<project_id>), and it's more probable they are interested in the latest released projects, not the ones released one year ago.

I can find a sense to order the view by date.

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gerhard killesreiter commented

@Kiam: yes, it might make sense, but it is also not obvious to the user. It doesn't say "this is sorted by date of the latest release"

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Title: Listing modules by Term is ordered by date? » Allow the list of modules by term to be sorted on a user's selected criteria

I am changing the title to reflect what the feature request is. If then the problem is just to add a comment on top of the list that explain how the list is sorted, that can be easily done (even if the comment should be added to each taxonomy term used for the modules).

The suggestion made from Gerhard could be implemented as a temporary solution until the site is redesigned.

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woeldiche commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Closing this unloved issue. Please reopen if you believe it's still relevant and wish to continue working on it.