It’s a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can’t think of a single time I didn’t want newest first. I couldn’t find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one.

The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I’m posting here and hoping for the best.

Thanks for any consideration!

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    There are some apps that are better at interpreting the results. Most are free with some premium paid features.

    • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I don’t want the software to interpret the results, I just want to get them sorted newest first without having to click an extra time. Also this being a free software activist project, the idea of adding on a paid feature seems pretty far out of place.

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Understood and agreed. It is indeed hard to get volunteers who are paid nothing to pay any attention to what you want.

        • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Shrug, if this gets to the devs I’m sure they’ll consider it. The main thing bugging me is the Microsoft angle that their suggested channel requires.