How are the questions sorted on the 'Unanswered' tab? (autoposted via PublicLab.org)

[jywarren]

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What happened just before the problem occurred? Or what problem could this idea solve? I went to search for unanswered questions on Public Lab here: http://ift.tt/2BbRWTf but I was confused by the way these questions were sorted. Is there a way to make that more clear? Maybe these should be sorted by most recent unanswered questions first?

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Stevie

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[jywarren]

It seems to be sorted by "node id" (nid), descending:

plots2/app/controllers/users_controller.rb

Lines 116 to 118 in 1230a73

	@questions = @user.user.questions
	.order('node.nid DESC')
	.paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 24)

We could try modifying this to sort answered ones to the top... we'd have to think through how to do that sorting. Do you like sorting by:

1. whether its been answered, and THEN
2. recency

?

[SidharthBansal]

I will like to try this.

[ebarry]

This would be really helpful. I am trying to sort by recently asked but unanswered questions, and the unanswered tab gives me results from 4 years ago.

[jywarren]

This was resolved, thank you!!!