On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 07:34 AM, Marcia Hudspeth wrote:
Is there a way to put Photo Album's in alpha order?
I grieves me to say it but IHMO the change to the default sort order implemented a couple of days ago was a mistake. I accept that it was requested by a (fairly small) number of beta members, commonly on the basis that their members were not necessarily computer - savvy and as a result had difficulties making their photos section work for them.
However, the change overlooked the fact that it has forced other groups - whose members might be equally non - computer savvy - to handle a completely different sort order which very possibly doesn't work for
them. OK; individual members can set a suitable sort order for themselves, but this brings people up against the "computer savvy" issue immediately.
Many changes brought about because of requests on beta have little or no impact on those who did not request them and perhaps don't need them; this change is different in that it affects everybody, and may in fact have disadvanted more subscribers than it benefitted.
I know this post risks having the sky brought down on my head but I suspect that I will not be the only owner / moderator who feels that this change was rushed through without enough consideration about its unintended consequences. Certainly for the group I moderate It has mangled the album sort order, although for reasons I won't risk boring you with this
shouldn't be too much of a problem for us; suffice to say we have a separate index (of links) and that still functions. However, the mangling of the sort order within albums? - albeit correctable at an individual level - has really wound me up.
One or two beta members have requested that the group - level default sort order should be owner settable, but I have no idea whether that will be implemented or not. If it is then there will be no longer - term problem. If it isn't? Well I for one will be very disappointed.
Chris
