Bookmark ordering on Tags pages wrong

[slowhandduke]

On the tags pages, if I click on the Bookmarks link, the Reading Lists are not shown in the correct order.

Firstly, I have a lot of reading lists with names like 'Tags: ...'. I tend to work on one at a time, and to push it to the top of the list I change the name to 'Tags; ...', the use of the semi-colon means it sorts above the ones using colons, and means it's on the first page of the display. However, now I'm not seeing that. My first four 'Tags: ...' reading lists are showing as:

Tags: Combo: 2f m+
Tags: Combo: 4f 1m
Tags: Combo: 6f 1m
Tags: Abduction

Now obviously the various 'Tags: Combo: ...' ones should be below the 'Tags: Abduction' one - in fact they should be *way* down the list of Reading Lists.

This has only started happening in the last couple of days - same time as the new format of the Tags pages appeared, which has the category and date displayed over on the left rather than under the Bookmarks button.

BTW I reported the identical bug with the Reading Lists display on Story pages a long time ago and that's still not fixed. Hopefully fixing this one will lead to the other one also being fixed - presumably they're using the same code to do the sorting.

One final point - if you go to an actual Reading List page and click on the Bookmarks icon for a story, the reading lists are sorted in the correct order.

(I will raise this as a bug, but posted it here as well because on another thread relating to bugs with tags pages Manu popped up, so he's obviously checking things here as well )

 

[Manu]

Thank you for the detailed info.

When I make a List, and then open the Bookmark Menu on the Tags Portal, the current sort treats the : and ; the same (as if they were the same character), but it seems to sort the alphabetical and numeric parts of the List names correctly. Is there an exact URL and two exact List names that you can share that I can use for more testing?

 

[slowhandduke]

Hi Manu,

As I said, it may be because I have a lot of reading lists that's throwing things out. If you need to access my account to do the testing, please feel free to do so.

The list names I gave in my original message are exact ones. I'm seeing the problem with all tag lists, and also one story pages the same problem occurs.

The colon / semi-colon thing used to work up until yesterday, but not a problem if it doesn't because I'll just use a temporary name that starts with an 's' for instance. BTW, when I tried to fix the problem by doing that (adding an 's' to get 'sTags: ...' the reading list stayed in the same place in the list of lists )).