How To: Interpreting the list of Topics

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@ptheland

But the designer of this platform thinks they are both the same, so that’s what we get.

It’s more complicated than that:

• If you sort a list of topics by likes, it will show you threads with the most number of likes.
• If you use search and sort by likes, it will actually show you individual posts with the most number of likes.

@WendyBG

Thanks for the explanation, Peter. Is there anything like “Best of” so I can see posts that have more recs and not have to read everything?

Thanks Wendy and Peter for making me keep digging. Taken me like forever, but I may have found a way. Here’s a write-up:

HowTo: Finding POSTS with the most likes. "Best of". Kinda

Introduction With Discourse (the software this forum uses) being simple and all, it’s almost impossible to get an overview of individual posts. The concepts of topics (threads) and posts are intermingled in totally intuitive ways. As you may have noticed, all you have are lists of topics which might contain good posts buried somewhere inside them. With Discourse being consistent and all, however, there is one way to get a list of individual posts. Here’s why: If you sort a list of topics by l…