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Sorting Issue
Posted: December 8th, 2024, 12:56 pm
by VideoGameCritic
A few months ago I made an enhancement to the site so games with titles like "The Grinch" would fall under G alphabetically, but still display its name on the index page as "The Grinch".
This looked better but I just discovered a problem. The table has its own sorting functionality, and that would put the game under "T" since it doesn't know how to ignore the "The". This could be fixed but would require more work than I'm willing to invest.
So I've reverted things so the games are sorted correctly, but show up as "Grinch, The". It's not so bad.
FYI
Re: Sorting Issue
Posted: December 8th, 2024, 1:49 pm
by Quick_Man
But does the Uncanny X-Men go under U or X?
Top 1 questions science will never answer.
Re: Sorting Issue
Posted: December 8th, 2024, 6:43 pm
by matmico399
Worked at Blockbuster for many years. If The, A or And was the first word it would be the the main word and then a comma. For example the The Godfather would be listed as Godfather, The. If you were to put THE or A at the front you would be going through a hundred titles to find Which THE movie you would be looking for. Definitely the format Godfather, The. Nobody had any problem finding anything.
Re: Sorting Issue
Posted: December 8th, 2024, 7:55 pm
by Herschie
matmico399 wrote:Worked at Blockbuster for many years. If The, A or And was the first word it would be the the main word and then a comma. For example the The Godfather would be listed as Godfather, The. If you were to put THE or A at the front you would be going through a hundred titles to find Which THE movie you would be looking for. Definitely the format Godfather, The. Nobody had any problem finding anything.
Now I feel nostalgic.
Re: Sorting Issue
Posted: December 9th, 2024, 6:54 pm
by VideoGameCritic
matmico399 wrote:Worked at Blockbuster for many years. If The, A or And was the first word it would be the the main word and then a comma. For example the The Godfather would be listed as Godfather, The. If you were to put THE or A at the front you would be going through a hundred titles to find Which THE movie you would be looking for. Definitely the format Godfather, The. Nobody had any problem finding anything.
So you guys don't mind "Grinch, The" ?
If so that would save me some effort. I was just thinking about how I could make the other way work in the web page.
Re: Sorting Issue
Posted: December 9th, 2024, 8:06 pm
by Stalvern
I mind it, but it's a a minor annoyance compared to the major investment that fixing it would be. Sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth to address.