Remember selected sorting options #209
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certainly a UX change, IMO three ways to do it:
If a user setting is required it may make sense to have the default value of Last Used |
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does this still work when the caller is manually setting the feed type?
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following up; no, my implementation of selectedFeedType does not work correctly when manually setting the type (such as when viewing posts from a specific community rather than the main feed). In all cases it will use the value in AppStorage.
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FWIW I feel like at some point we should save this setting per feed type like Apollo. Some communities I like to sort by new, some by hot, etc. |
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Heya @cdstamper, we have a new repo at https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem, due to some shuffling around we couldn't get it migrated properly, but if you could reopen this PR there, and link it back here, then it can continue to be considered ^^ |
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Pull Request Information
About this Pull Request
This is a simple change to persist across app launches, using AppStorage:
SortingOptionsfor the feed andFeedType(All Posts, Subscribed, etc)Before this PR, each app launch will result in the feed resetting to the default Subscribed feed sorted by Hot. After this PR, the app will remember your last selected
FeedTypeandSortingOptions.Screenshots and Videos
There are no UI changes, it's completely transparent to the user.
Additional Context
This change was inspired by the last few days of using Mlem. As a new Lemmy user who hasn't subscribed to many communities, I prefer to browse the All Posts feed. The default Hot sort is not very useful in this case, as the content is essentially unchanged for the last several days. Remembering my last selected
FeedTypeandSortingOptionslets me get right into the app and start browsing.I considered adding a sort preference in Settings (to match the Default Comment Sort option that already exists). However I hesitate to add two different UIs for a single preference; it seems to me that allowing the user to pick their preferred sort in context makes a lot of sense, and it's reasonable to expect that the app would remember this preference. Happy to adjust the implementation if an explicit setting is preferred.
Similar for FeedType -- it just makes sense that the app would remember which feed you browse.
A note on NSUserDefault keys: it may be useful to consider scoping the preferences a bit more specifically. For example in the future it may be best to persist sort options (for example) for each applicable screen; user feeds may have a different preferred sort than the post feed. Or taking it a step further, users may expect All Posts to sort differently than Subscribed or Local feeds. I suggest a reverse-domain approach.