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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mysociety

Surfacing requests with lots of followers

Open RichardTaylor opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

  • Make it generally possible to order lists of requests by number of followers
  • Have a page listing recent successful requests ordered by number of followers

While I get the impression following others' requests isn't a widely used feature, perhaps it would be if the effect of following was to get the request promoted and given greater visibility.

This could be a way to identify good, or notable, uses of the services.

RichardTaylor avatar Jul 16 '22 16:07 RichardTaylor

They do this on AskTheEU.org, although I think it is all-time, rather than recent, since the requests listed are old:

It would probably better to do it with recent ones.

WilliamWDTK avatar Jul 16 '22 22:07 WilliamWDTK

They do this on AskTheEU.org

That reminded me that the suggestion of highlighting requests with the most followers was mentioned on an issue for improving the WhatDoTheyKnow front page:

https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/791#issuecomment-1069532500

RichardTaylor avatar Jul 16 '22 22:07 RichardTaylor

I don't think that the current top tracked requests are ones that we'd particularly want to highlight.

FOIMonkey avatar Jul 25 '22 05:07 FOIMonkey