Make order on invite code list make sense

[yvi]

Title:
Make order on invite code list make sense

Area:
Invite codes frontend

Summary:
The order on http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/invitecodes?full=1 is not optimal - make it so.

Description:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/invitecodes?full=1 seems to have three tiers of order:

1. the unused codes
2. the used codes, ordered by date the person joined ascending
3. the used codes that were sent to someone via e-mail, ordered by date the person joined ascending

I suggest joining 2 and 3.

Poll #7730 Make order on invite code list make sense

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (67.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.9%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (28.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Yes, please! This drives me crazy!

[jumpuphigh]

I like the way they are listed now. I can see a day coming where I've used so many codes, and given up so many codes to dw_codesharing that mixing them up will feel like a big, unorganized mess.

[yvi]

Hmm, I know I have sent a few codes out via e-mail and then later posted them on dw_codesharing anyway and now those show up in list number 2 anyway, so for me that distinction is pretty meaningless.

[kyrielle]

I'm curious - what is the benefit of keeping the ones given away / used directly, separate from the ones sent via email?

[denise]

In my case -- I have hundreds of emailed-but-not-used codes (from the days when I was emailing codes left and right during closed beta) that I sometimes give away again if I don't feel like regenerating more when I'm out, and it's very helpful to cut-and-paste from a list sorted by date and time sent (so I make sure, for instance, I'm only repurposing codes sent pre-open-beta-launch).

I recognize that I am an edge case with my 5000 or so invite codes, however. :P

[yvi]

But not-used codes are a different category anyway - I just want the sorting of the used codes to make sense to me :)

[jumpuphigh]

It just seems more orderly to my mind. The categories in my mind are:

Unused
Unused but promised to someone (emailed to people who haven't set up accounts yet)
Used by people I don't know (donated to dw_codesharing or some other give-away event)
Used by people I do know

I also alphabetize my CDs, have my books sorted similar to how they'd be sorted in a library, and have my spices organized by type.

The benefit to me is I can see if an account that was set up was set up by someone I know and who I should be following/granting access. This is helpful if I've turned off notifications for any reason and missed a notification that this happened.

[kyrielle]

Thank you - that makes sense. I don't ever email codes myself - so I couldn't think why you'd want them segregated after use - but I can see why if you can then use the email to go "aha, that's so-and-so" and add them.

[arethinn]

To me the optimal order would be

Unused
Used, with something clickable at the top of each column so I could sort those either by timestamp or alphabetically by username, ascending or descending.

The distinction between used directly and emailed was unknown to me since I've never emailed one.

[cheyinka]

And, if possible, the ability to sort them by the codes themselves, which would work as a "when I got this code" timestamp rather than "when someone used this code of mine" timestamp.

[ninetydegrees]

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/556378.html *facepalm*