SpaceDock has three main ways of sorting mod lists:
Highest score at top
Most recently created at top
Most recently updated at top
When you perform a text search, the sort is only by score.
Motivation
It's not easy to tell that this is how it works, and it's even less easy to switch between different sorts; you have to go back to the game's main page and click a different link.
It's desirable to be able to tell what the current sort is and change it.
Additional sort methods for searching could be useful.
Changes
Now mod lists using one of those three sorts contain a sorting control in the upper right that indicates the current sort and allows the user to switch to the others:
To make this fit nicely on the screen, the RSS icon in the page header is now the same height as the text so the header doesn't change size between New/Updated (which have the icon) and Popularity (which doesn't)
Now the &query= URL parameter for /search works for all of the sorts, and is preserved when you click the sort-by buttons, so you can perform a search and then sort it by New/Updated if you wish
Background
SpaceDock has three main ways of sorting mod lists:
When you perform a text search, the sort is only by score.
Motivation
It's not easy to tell that this is how it works, and it's even less easy to switch between different sorts; you have to go back to the game's main page and click a different link.
It's desirable to be able to tell what the current sort is and change it.
Additional sort methods for searching could be useful.
Changes
&query=URL parameter for/searchworks for all of the sorts, and is preserved when you click the sort-by buttons, so you can perform a search and then sort it by New/Updated if you wish