"Latest" not working in "Feature Requests"

[Kirk_Masden]

Last night I posted a feature request:

Search for "dead weight" within apps Feature Requests

There have been several requests for the addition of search capabilities to the editing interface. First, however, let me review the current state of the art: @Fabian’s excellent post tells us how to conduct comprehensive searches throughout the entire app. Still, there have been many calls for more convenient or more powerful search functions. In this post, I’d like to add one more search function to that “wish list”: a “dead weight” search. By “dead weight,” I mean virtual columns, view…

Today, however, when I was looking at posts in the community I realized that I hadn’t seen my own post. When I tried to look for it in the the “Feature Requests” section I couldn’t find it, even though less than 24 hours had past. Even tapping on “Latest” didn’t help:

It seems that “Latest” doesn’t work here (and perhaps it doesn’t work elsewhere as well – haven’t conducted a survey yet).

I think the current situation is quite problematic for “Feature Requests.” Requests the generate a lot of discussion keep getting put before people’s eyes but requests that are reasonable but might not generate discussion tend to have a very short “window” in which to be viewed and considered.

By the way, “Votes” seems to work, except that I can’t find my post with others that have received the same number of votes.

Thanks for your consideration.

[Kirk_Masden]

Now I see that “Latest” seems to be the same as “Votes” and “Top” – ranked according to the number of votes, not chronology. Unlike “Top”, however, we can’t choice a period of time for “Latest” and “Votes.” All in all, this is extremely funky and likely to lead some valuable suggestions to be overlooked. Instead of “the rich get richer” I think the current set up tends to lead to a situation where “the voted get more votes.” If AppSheet intends to use the number of votes as an indication of what requests actually have the most support, I think this issue needs to be addressed.

By the way, “Activity” does seem to be chronological – and I see my post there. But perhaps this is different from what was intended by “Latest” (arrangement by posting date?).

@Peter, I hope you don’t mind my tagging you as we have discussed improving the community in the past.

[peterdykstra]

Hey @Kirk_Masden, thanks for bringing this up - I’ve noticed the voting functionality in Discourse leads to some wonky sorting/filtering issues that behave differently from other categories - I’ve been encountering the same things you’ve described.

One thing you can try that might give you some other options is playing with the URL string - try adding ‘?order=votes’ to the end of your URL after you’ve filtered by a desired timeframe (I use this when tracking requests on a larger timeframe).

Similarly, you can apply ‘?order=op_likes’ to any category to sort by likes of any Topic (not cumulative activity).

[Kirk_Masden]

Thanks! I’ll try these suggestions. I know that AppSheet has not built the community software so you are not in a position to edit it. Don’t you think, though, that the provider should fix it?