Search improvements - additional sort and filter options
There are a couple of improvements that our community (and our team) would like to see for the search options:
- Sorting results (eg by date, most liked, etc)
- Additional filters (eg solved, date range
Sorting results
Being able to sort by different factors would make it a lot easier for members to find posts that are useful for them. For example, date and most likes would be really helpful in allowing folks to hone in relevant topics. Both of those sort options are available for comments, so it would make a lot of sense to add them to the search results too.
Filters
The big one here would be whether a question has been answered. There’s a couple of use cases for this: if you’re a member with a similar question and you only want to see questions with an answer or if you’re a member who wants to help others with questions relating to specific topics (eg if you’re an expert in something/have particular skills and you want to find folks that need help with questions aligned with your knowledge).
Other useful filters would be:
- Author type (eg Member, moderator, user role/ranks)
- Within a date range (eg last month)
Those options would allow members to easily find the content that’s relevant to them.