[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3083: Add alphabetizing to users' page

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#3083: Add alphabetizing to users' page
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 Reporter:  filosofo                        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect                          |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                          |    Milestone:  2.1      
Component:  Optimization                    |      Version:  2.1      
 Severity:  normal                          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  bg|has-patch users alphabetize  |  
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Comment (by filosofo):

 foolswisdom, you're probably right that in most scenarios the search is
 adequate to find a user.  However, I think being able to browse your users
 has benefits for user experience.  It allows you to break the users into
 manageable chunks so that browsing is actually possible (if you have a lot
 --like my client with over 40,000--then just paging alone is impractical).

 Without this feature, it could seem as though your list of users is a
 black box: unfathomable, unless you know already what to search for.

 Besides, alphabetical sorting is a common feature of most software that
 has a large database of users; it's something you expect to be able to do.

 Also, I've used this to find someone whose name I might not know how to
 spell correctly.  For example, if I know Mark Jaquith is a user, but I'm
 not sure whether it's marcj, markj, mjaquith, jakewith_m, or whatever,
 eyeballing the M's and J's usually will be faster than trying to guess
 alternate spellings for the search.

 For about 10 additional lines of code, you can have a feature that would
 be difficult to implement just with a plugin and that makes the user
 experience much better.

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