A way to sort thread by most recent 'like' given

[TroubleFait]

When trying to discover threads, only posts can bump them up. Which means old completed stories remain forever buried, and stories with less discussion can be invisible.

If 'likes' could make threads more visible, it would improve discoverability. And it would remove excuses to necro or bump with a "TFTC" and other low contribution posts.

 

[Shadowclonier]

Without jumping into adding code and all associated logistics, you can use the "Latest activity," section in the "What's new," tab to see every single recent like and posts. It won't sort into separate subforums, but it's immediately available. https://forum.questionablequesting.com/whats-new/latest-activity

On the suggestion itself, I'm not sure it would actually add any real discoverability to threads. You have to understand, a tiny proportion of end users ever actually change anything off default in any system or program. Most users here don't intuitively know or remember there's actually the ability to sort threads by watchers, likes, latest threadmark, etc, or filter by thread status like 'complete', so they won't think to find threads that way even if implemented.

Beyond the human knowledge component, there's also the natural factor where the majority of thread likes will naturally come while it's active. If a thread isn't getting enough posts to keep receiving semifrequent comments and stay beyond the necro limits, it also won't be seeing enough traffic for independent likes to keep it from being buried by the constant flow of active or popular threads' activity. If anything, it would be even harder for those threads to be seen than in the default sorting method; lone likes for old stories would be quickly buried multiple pages back by all the stories which received an update in the past week receiving their own constant activity.