Advanced topic filtering is something our moderators at Telfort do each and every day. It enables us to help customers and communicate with our community in an organized way. Right now, filtering can sometimes be an unnecessarily tedious job. Also, finding the best strategy for filtering can be challenging. We think that there are a few ways in which advanced topic filtering could and should be improved.

I’m curious to hear your opinions on these suggestions (written as user stories). Do you agree that these (or any) improvements of topic filtering should be an actual priority for Insided in 2017, instead of a nice to have for the long run (which it has been for about 2 years)?

1. As a moderator, I want to be able to see and change filters that have been saved, beyond just their names, so that I can correct the mistakes in my filters and improve existing filters instead of having to make new ones each and every time.

2. As a moderator, I want to be able to duplicate a saved filter using a button, so that I can make variations on a (complex) filter more quickly and (as a community manager) investigate what the most useful filters are.

3. As a moderator, I want to use dynamic date filters: last 7 days, last 14 days, last 30 days, last 60 days, so that I don’t have to manually reset and remake filters.

4. As a moderator, I want to be able to filter a user (and/or user role) as a ‘Last commenter’, so that I have another way to discover which ‘balls are in my court’ because the last reply is not by me.

5. As a community manager, I want every label and tag filter to have maximum options: ‘is equal to’, ‘is not equal to’, ‘contains’, ‘does not contain’, ‘is blank’, ‘is not blank’, so that I can search more anomalies (e.g. which topics don’t have moderator tags yet?) and get more information about my forum topics.

6. As a community manager, I want to be able to filter on the number of ‘Contributors’ (compare the current filter ‘Replies’), so that I have another way to investigate the popularity of topics.

Please tell me which of these 6 improvement ideas you and your colleagues think should be implemented as well and which ideas you have about topic filtering yourself. (P.S. I want to make a similar topic about Inbox Improvements but by all means, beat me to the punch :))