Allow multiple ways to sort the stream list

[rht]

Currently, the stream list is sorted by the number of topics. This is the use case of Lean, but other project may prefer different sorting method, e.g. Rust prefers sorting alphabetically.

This can be solved dynamically by adding js code to the index.html output.

See #2 (comment) for context of the discussion.

[showell]

In #19 I at least extracted some helpers for sorting during the build, but I agree that the best solution here is probably just some client-side JS to do the most obvious sorts (by count, by name, by recency, etc.)

We'd want sorting in all three pages:

• list of streams
• list of topics (for single stream)
• list of messages (for single topic)

[showell]

@rht Do you have any interest in working on this? Or maybe try to recruit on of the GSOC folks to play with it?

[rht]

I can do this later this weekend. Regarding with GSoC, isn't it already too late to specify a zulip-archive project in https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/docs/overview/gsoc-ideas.md?

[showell]

For GSoC, there might be students who just want to work on this for fun, and maybe to help their chances of being admitted. It's too late to name projects, but I think there's still time for them to improve their chances for admission via contributions, correct?

[Rik44444]

hi, has this topic been solved? Is there a way to set the sorting of topics and streams now, both at organization level (default) and at user level?

[rht]

You can modify

zulip-archive/lib/zulip_data.py

Line 19 in b5561fd

return sorted(streams, key=lambda s: len(streams[s]["topic_data"]), reverse=True)

to the sorting mechanism of your choice.

[Rik44444]

You can modify

zulip-archive/lib/zulip_data.py

Line 19 in b5561fd

return sorted(streams, key=lambda s: len(streams[s]["topic_data"]), reverse=True)

to the sorting mechanism of your choice.

thanks! We use the Zulip Cloud, we don't self-host. Is there a place in the Settings there where we can modify this, both:

• the default sorting on an organization level and
• sorting on a user level (preferable even on a stream level)

?

[rht]

This repo is specifically for archival tool for web-public streams. You should raise in the main repo instead: #10205.

[rht]

I meant zulip/zulip#10205.

[Rik44444]

OK :) thanks!