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Hello, I noticed that the sort order of search result displayed in thumbnails mode is kind of random.

For example, if you search `a:"brother pierrot$" -translated tank`, there're four results sorted by Published date in list mode, be it 1 2 3 4. Now you switch to thumbnails mode, the result will be 1 3 4 2 from left to right.

Is it just me? I'm using firefox 51.0.1

The order will stabilize after one or two pages. Then you will have the correct order.

I believe the system tries to group galleries in rows based on the height of their cover pages, that's why you see some weird reordering

I believe the system tries to group galleries in rows based on the height of their cover pages, that's why you see some weird reordering

^ this is absolutely correct. The thumbnails are reorganised to optimise screen space.

(we never got the exact algorithm though. Probably it accumulates horizontal ones 'till it has enough to fill a row and display vertical only 'till then. There's likely threshold of how many vertical rows can be added whilst accumulating the horizontal row, since you get mixed rows from time to time (which are not the last row).)

That sounds reasonable. But I hope there's a way to turn off this feature, if it's not a bug. I really want the search result to be consistent

No way to turn it off as far as I know. Possible solutions:

• Write a script that queries the API and restores the original ordering based on the response (I'm like 41% sure there's some similar script somewhere you could modify to do this) Disregard this
• Convince Tenboro to add an option in the settings to disable thumbnail ordering

As a middle-ground solution, the server could be made to use client-side ordering via the order CSS3 property (requires [caniuse.com] flexboxes, currently at 97.5% coverage). You could then disable the sorting client-side by using Stylish or something similar.
But again, this would also need to be implemented by Tenboro so you'd have to convince him again. Also this

This post has been edited by hzqr: Feb 26 2017, 23:20

queries the API

Don't even need that. In list mode the galleries are ordered by decreasing GIDs, which are in the anchor hrefs.

Whoops. Yeah, my bad, totally forgot you could use the GID as a progressive ID.
In that case yeah, it's easy peasy: [gist.github.com] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f15e1d5e0...31befa1b7731b04

Whoops. Yeah, my bad, totally forgot you could use the GID as a progressive ID.
In that case yeah, it's easy peasy: [gist.github.com] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f15e1d5e0...31befa1b7731b04

Thanks, that's much cleaner that what I had. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)