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May 30, 2003, 10:21 PM
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You can sort by rating, yes, but that only works if you want to see 39+ pages starting going gradually from 9.7 to N\A, or N\A to 9.7. It's kind of useless right now, at least if you wanted to get a list of "everything with a rating of 4.7".

A much more advanced search script is required - I don't know if this is planned or not for J2Ov2, but it should be. We need a search that lets you order by multiple fields, each with its own choice of ascending or descending, as well as the options of exact values and ranges. For example, I should be able to search for "all files with an E in the author's name uploaded before January 27th 2003, with ratings between 3.7 and 6.5 ordered by average rating ascending then level name descending". This is completely possible with MySQL queries, so it should be able to be made into a search script. Also, the user should be able to save these results for a "default level view" (say they never wanted to see levels rated exactly 6.0 or 3.9, they could have it default to this all the time).

I guess categories really wasn't a good idea - a much more advanced search script is what's really needed. Also, the page number bar with 39+ page links should have an option to be alphabetized. The JCF member list really needs this too; if I'm looking for a member who's name starts with "P" in the member list, it takes much longer than it should (click "List Alphabetically", decide whether there will be more names before or after the ones starting with "P", click "Last >>", click "34", click "31", click "28", click "25", click "22" oops went to far, click "25" again, check if name is on this page, if not click "24", if not on this page go back to beginning and end to see if it starts with any special characters, etc. The same inconvenience applies with downloads, but at least you get a full page number bar)
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