Sorting problem of "My Answers" on MATLAB Answers website

Any progress on the issue? It is a month now! Not only the order is reversed, the order didn't get updated, i.e. the latest update on the question which I have an answer didn't go to the bottom of "My Answers" list. This makes it hard to follow up.

[Oleg Komarov]

Yeah, I always click next page and then modify the link to the last page.

[Fangjun Jiang]

How did you do it? Walter said in my previous question that hacking the address didn't work anymore.

[Paulo Silva]

it's vacation time, please let the developers enjoy their vacations

[Walter Roberson]

Hacking the URL to change the sort order doesn't work. Hacking the URL to change the page number works.

[Fangjun Jiang]

@Walter, how about the updated order? Did you realize that the latest updated question didn't go to the bottom?

[Walter Roberson]

The ability to change sort between ascending and descending is bound in to the same option as the ability to change the sort criteria, such as &sort=votes-desc all as one option. The entire option is ignored, so the sort criteria cannot currently be changed.

I had not realized that the latest updated question did not go to the bottom; it hasn't mattered to me.

[Fangjun Jiang]

I can deal with the reversed order. Just go to the bottom, right? But the order didn't get updated. On the "home" page, any question that has a update will jump to the top. I would expect that on the "My Answers" page, any question that has a update will go to the bottom. But it doesn't.

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

As of Wednesday evening, 9/21/2011, the problem has just been solved by the system update.

[Image Analyst]

Yeah? How so? I'm looking at that 100 answer wish list entry and it seems the answers randomly bounce between 8 months ago and 7 months ago with no detectable sorting order, even if you include looking at the comments for each answer.

[Walter Roberson]

This particular issue is about sorting of the list of questions you have answered, accessed by the "My Answers" area on the left hand side.

I would not say that it is "solved", but it does at least now sort from oldest modified to newest modified.

[Fangjun Jiang]

If you provided an answer to a question, it will show up in "My Answers". Any update to that question will make it jump to the top of "My Answers". This makes it easy to do follow-up if you care about whether your answer solved the problem or if the OP has further questions.

It is solved because prior to this evening, the questions in "My Answers" are not only sorted from oldest to new, but they were not updated. Simply put, the questions in "My Answers" were sorted only by the time of the OP, oldest first.

[Image Analyst]

OK. Thanks for the explanation. I think I remember this from before but forgot. I always forget to check the "My Answers" section. I'll have to try to remember to check it out now. It's a good idea.

[Walter Roberson]

Correction to what I wrote: it now sorts from most recently modified (first) to oldest modified (last)

[David Young]

It's so much better now the newest changes are at the top. Thanks for taking this up.

[Helen Chen]

@Fangiun - Thanks for updating this question! I went to update but you beat me to it. :-)

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

What I'd like to see for My Answers is who the latest poster was. Right now, I can't tell so I have to keep checking. If it said I was the last poster then I wouldn't have to check, but if it said someone else was the last poster then I know I'd have to check for something new.

[Walter Roberson]

Wish-list, wish-list !

Showing information about last poster or last time updated have been suggested there before, but not directly in the context of My Answers.

[Fangjun Jiang]

Yes, that would be nice. What I did now is that I am kind of remembering my last post and the topic of that question. If next morning, some different topic popped up at the top, I'll know there is update on those topics.