From #472934: Meta-issue: Make topic listing look more like phpBB's:
- There are exposed sorts at the bottom for sorting by author, post time, replies, subject, and views and ascending/descending

Views doesn't have exposed sorts, unfortunately. We could probably do this as a table sort instead. The only issue there is the forum topic title and its created information are all smooshed together in one column and I'm not sure how Views deals with that.

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karens commented

There is an issue for exposed sorts in Views #228510: Exposed Sorts, and a preliminary patch has been committed to Views 3, so with some work that could be finished and added in.

The table sort would work, but it is less intuitive: everyone knows what a text box and submit button mean, not everyone gets that they can click on the table header to sort. Plus the initial sort direction is not always the one you want, so you sometimes have to click twice to get it.

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karens commented
Status: Active » Needs work

Actually, since there is a 'needs work' patch already at #228510, I'll mark this 'needs work'.

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KarenS: Good point. I would love to see the exposed sorting feature added to Views as a result of this work. :D

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Status: Needs work » Postponed

I talked to Earl about this the other day. Exposed sorts is a feature slated for a 6.x-3.x release of Views, which means it's unlikely to be done in our timeframe. Marking postponed.