Organizing Memories by Default (date of post/date added)

[archangelbeth]

Title:
Organizing Memories by Default (date of post/date added)

Area:
Memories

Summary:
An option to organize how you and others view your Memories by default.

Description:
Sometimes I forget to put a chapter of my Work In Progress into my Memories immediately. When I do put it in, it appears, by default, at the bottom, no matter how many chapters past it I may have gotten. (And we will not discuss having to re-add all the chapters I imported from LJ...) The work-around, to re-add things in the order you want them, is just way too painful for anything but at most a dozen entries. (Been there, done that.)

I'd like to have a preference for Memories that organizes it in one of four ways: Most Recently Dated First, Most Recently Dated Last, Most Recently Added First, Most Recently Added Last.

If only two options would be more feasible, then Most Recently Dated and Most Recently Added.

(Well, actually, *I'd* prefer it if the default were to sort by date (up or down, don't care), but I can understand that some people might want to look in their Memories according to when *they* found-and-Memoried-a-page, and not when that page was actually posted.)

This does cause a little more work on the customizing end, potentially, and thus more complexity. However, it allows creators to give people their archives and be assured that it will be in an understandable order -- or even one optimized to their audience, with new material appearing at the top (easier for beta-readers) or bottom (someone who posts mostly completed stories and wants Chapter 1 to be at the top). In the meantime, allowing sorting by Date Added allows people to dig up, "oh, that post, I know I saw it last month, so it should be near the top/bottom..."

But if you can only use one as default, with no customization, I beg you to change it to Date Posted instead of Date Added. It's driving me seriously nuts here.

Poll #850

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (55.0%)

Should be implemented with changes.
6 (30.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (10.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (5.0%)