Sorting icons are flipped in Bases

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I don’t wanna be early here, but I am pretty sure the “sort-by” icons are inverted in Bases.

This is new to old (larger to smaller/descending) so the ^ icon should be flipped.

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Btw, you should create a bases tag on the forums.

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I am not sure I understand you.
Arrow up is newest to oldest.
Arrow down is oldest to newest.

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Can you kindly repost this and make sure you follow the bug report template? Thanks

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Usually up arrows mean ascending and down arrows mean descending, so sorting timestamps with a down arrow should result in descending timestamps (i.e., newest to oldest).

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Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Similar to how < and > work..

It figured this was easy enough to understand without filling a full template, I am very busy.

See:

Or maybe I am just used to this because my many years on MacOS:

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I checked a couple of software and maybe there isn’t a universal agreement. we’ll double check this.

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I also think the <> are flipped:

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For me, the “correct” way it is:

  • > or ∇: means descending order
  • < or △: means ascending order
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I’m here to add another voice to this.

I checked multiple applications that show an arrow at the top of a sorted column. What I found was:

  • MacOS Finder
  • MacOS Forklift
  • Windows File Explorer
  • Windows XYplorer
  • Excel

All use an up arrow to indicate ascending sort, and a down arrow for descending sort. Given that the two mainstream OSes (Windows and Mac) do it this way, I think doing it differently will cause confusion.

Otherwise, please either give an option to customise it, or use some other indicator for the sort direction.

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Well, you can, I’ve been doing that since the minute I saw it.

/* Temp: flip Based sorting icon */
.bases-table-header-sort svg.svg-icon.lucide-chevron-down {
    transform: rotate(180deg);
}
.bases-table-header-sort svg.svg-icon.lucide-chevron-up {
    transform: rotate(180deg);
}
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we flipped this in 1.9.3

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Thank you – working as expected!

I got a bit confused as I was using @Kaleo’s workaround for the last few days, and suddenly it flipped back. It took me a while to work out it was due to the Obisidan update, and I had to remove the workaround :slight_smile: