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jackjamieson2 / yarns-microsub-server

Yarns is a Microsub server that runs as a plugin on your WordPress site.
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Timeline order #81

Closed jackjamieson2 closed 5 years ago

jackjamieson2 commented 5 years ago

I just realized an annoying problem in Yarns.

Ideally, I would like to display posts in reverse chronological order.

Yarns gets close, but groups items from a single feed together. This is because items are ultimately ordered by _id, which matches the order that they were added to the database.

The problem is that if multiple posts have been added to a feed in a short time, they'll be added in a cluster.

Solution is probably to eschew numerical ids, and instead use dates for sorting etc. This will require some adjustments to the paging functions

jackjamieson2 commented 5 years ago

The first step of this is implemented, which was simply to add a sorting function when returning timelines.

There's still potential to have things out of order at page-breaks (timelines are returned in 'pages' of twenty items each)

I think I'll leave this for now, since I want to rethink the database structure (see #82) and that's probably the place to handle more substantial issues related to sorting