Implement ideal group subquestion ordering

[ryooan]

Current behavior

My understanding is group subquestions are currently ordered as follows:

• When open, by highest CP, so if option Y has CP 55% and option X has CP 30%, Y is shown above X.
• This is the case for numeric and dates as well, higher CP medians shown at the top.
• Pending questions seem to have subquestions shown in order created, Luke suggests by subquestion id, which might not be stable.

Expected/desired behavior

Ideal is this:

• Have option to create custom ordering that overrides changes in CP.
• And instead of or in addition to the above it has the following logic:
  • IF all close dates are the same
    • Then sort by highest CP, regardless if binary or continuous
    • Sort by order created when pending
  • IF all close dates are NOT the same:
    • Sort by close date, regardless of value of CP.
    • Sort by close date when pending as well.

We could even potentially get custom ordering for free via the close date sort, as mods and admins could increment each by a few minutes, though this is a bit hacky.

[ryooan]

I'm not seeing a ticket for specifying custom colors for binary group subquestions as well, and am unsure if this should be lumped into this or a separate thing.

[SylvainChevalier]

@ryooan I like what you've outlined, but it sounds a bit complicated to me. How about:

1. It is possible to manually reorder subquestions when editing a group. Probably using arrows like this:

   

2. Groups have a new field: subquestion sort order. Options are:

   • Manual: matches the order from the edit form.
   • CP (asc.): ascending Community Prediction.
   • CP (desc.): descending Community Prediction.

3. Fan graphs are always sorted by the manual sort order.

4. Timeline graphs, their legends, and the table are sorted by the chosen sort order. Resolved questions are always sorted after non-resolved questions.

Note: notice the sort by close date is missing, since it's easy to do by manual sorting so would be mostly redundant.

[ryooan]

@SylvainChevalier I think that sounds good

[ryooan]

@SylvainChevalier related, but would be great if the order in the timeline down here matched the order in the table, except listing open stuff first. I have no idea what the ordering is currently based on, it's very jumbled. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/14034/us-monthly-u-3-unemployment-rate/#comment-195150

[SylvainChevalier]

@ryooan good point, clarified my comment above.

(Btw, the group you linked was slightly broken because the Jan-25 and Feb-25 questions were named "Jan-24" and "Feb-24". This confused the ui because there were two "Jan-24" and two "Feb-24". I renamed the questions and it fixed it.)

[ryooan]

Oh good catch, thank you!