Button to sort each category list by the number of upvotes

[akshay-sngh]

Currently, the cards are sorted by create time. It would be helpful to have button on each CATEGORY that could sort the items by decreasing number of upvotes.

[davidje13]

Hi, sorry for not replying when you posted this.

I see some merit to this, but I think I'd favour an option in the retro settings (i.e. sort by votes / creation time) rather than a button on the retro page itself (which could confuse users when the order of everything changes because somebody else pressed the button!). Though even then, it has the potential to surprise users as the order of items changes while they are being voted on - especially problematic if it causes somebody to vote on the wrong thing!

For other reasons I've been wondering about adding a more explicit "begin discussions" step once adding+voting is complete, which would probably be a natural moment to sort items by votes (though still not perfect; participants may still wish to add and vote on things after the discussion begins)

In general I think anything that causes the order of items to change is potentially problematic (and would at the very least need some kind of smooth animation and maybe a short interactivity freeze to avoid accidental clicks on the wrong item)

Are you aware that the "auto-facilitation" (pressing right arrow or clicking Next to auto-select the next item) already prioritises higher-voted items?