Contacts sort options

[sapphirepro]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

It's hard to review contacts on Telegram, because it's only sorted by last online state. Scrolling them and then suddenly someone coming online messes all up + it's very hard to find specific contacts.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add sort options, please. At minimum required is search by alphabet. A-Z etc, then can scroll all contacts by alphabet ignoring their last online state. It would make it much more convenient.

Thank you a lot in advance!

Describe alternatives you've considered

Add sort options, please. At minimum required is search by alphabet. A-Z etc, then can scroll all contacts by alphabet ignoring their last online state. It would make it much more convenient.

Thank you a lot in advance!

Additional context

We are talking of sidebar menu => Contacts.

[john-preston]

@sapphirepro There is a button in the top right box corner.

[sapphirepro]

@sapphirepro There is a button in the top right box corner.

It is NOT working as expected, cause regardless of alphabet it still keeps online/offline as priority. If alphabetical order online/offline status must be fully ignored. So feature is either missing or buggy, depending of what you preffer.

This totally destroys order + let's say I looked 50% of list, then someone comes online and moves to top of list, then offline again etc. Alphabetical order sorting must be 100% static ignoring olline/offline state completely so if person's name starts on "Z" and he is online, he still must be in the end of the list, not allowed to appear on top just because he appeared online

[sapphirepro]

Yes. Just checked. It's a bug. In Android app sorts ok. In Linux Desktop app shows first online and few sorted by recent online, then alphabetically, so algorithm is broken or contains bug

[john-preston]

@sapphirepro I cannot reproduce that :(

[sapphirepro]

Look. Both sorting modes. Are any of them alphabetical from top to bottom? NO!

[sapphirepro]

Look. Both sorting modes. Are any of them alphabetical from top to bottom? NO!

You really can not see that on first screenshot that should be by Alphabet top rows still count with last online time? Also maybe folders etc count, I don't know, but should be STRICTLY alphabetical ignoring fully online time, premium statuses, folders, pinned contacts whatever else, just strict A-Z

[john-preston]

It looks like switching didn't work at all 🤔

[john-preston]

Maybe that's a locale issue, because for sorting it uses some stripped from diacritics etc strings.

[sapphirepro]

Maybe that's a locale issue, because for sorting it uses some stripped from diacritics etc strings.

Possible. Worth investigating I guess. In mobile app all works normally as expected

[sapphirepro]

It looks like switching didn't work at all 🤔

Well, it changes stuff (as you can see lists are not equal), but does it some very weird way