Sort Icon Page by Active/Inactive Status

[whipcracks]

Title:
Sort Icon Page by Active/Inactive Status

Area:
icons

Summary:
On the View Icons page (and possibly the Upload Icon page) allow a sort option which will group Active/Inactive icons (preferably Active on the top/first page) together for ease of finding them.

Description:
Since there are already sorting options for Keyword and Upload Order, having this additional sorting option would be beneficial for accounts which have had paid or premium status previously and are expired, etc. particularly now that there are permanent icon slots available which increase the overall capacity of an account's icon slots.

I believe the method dictating which icons are left active go by most-used in journals followed by most recently uploaded? (I could be wrong on this, it's just what I've observed). However these options both leave active icons scattered through the overall icon page(s). Although the icon browser does only load active icons IF the user still has a paid, it doesn't help free accounts who may be trying to search out 15 active icons from 100, 250, or even more.

I'm not foreseeing any immediate problems if this were implemented due to the fact that there are other existing sort options, but if anyone spots something I've missed...?

Poll #12197 Sort Icon Page by Active/Inactive Status

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 67

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Should be implemented as-is.
56 (83.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.5%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (10.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.5%)

Comments

[blue_rampion]

Lapsing doesn't necessarily mean that that paid won't ever be renewed though - I have a number of accounts which will go through periods of activity and inactivity, and I'll let them lapse when I know I won't be using them much for a while. But that doesn't mean that I won't decide to renew those accounts in the future, or that I won't want to sparingly use those accounts during the unpaid, 'inactive' periods. Someone else might just not have the money at that point in time, but will renew later on when they do.

Plus, when accounts that used to be paid are harder to manage than accounts that have never been paid at all, that just acts as a disincentive for some people to get paids in the first place. The fact that you can't choose the icons that remain does tie into this as well, but I have known people who'd like to get a paid for just a short time, but they end up not getting it at all because they know that icons would be a hassle afterwards.