Shuffle order by default

XYZ Type was the directory’s first nameplate sponsor, and during our conversations Ben had made the suggestion of potentionally “abandoning alphabetical order of the listing” and “going to random sort to better surface foundries who may have not [have] thought through the alphabet when chosing a foundry name.”

I was planning on implementing this later down, but his comment helped me fast track the change. That being said the way shuffling is currently implemented is a little half baked.

At the moment, a random order is determined on page load. If you change the sorting option to A → Z and then swap back to shuffle, it’ll go back to the original shuffle order as opposed to giving you a fresh reshuffling.

Add more sort options

A few sorting options have been added to the directory’s view settings:

• A → Z (the previous default)
• Z → A
• Shuffle 🔀 (the new default)

There are two ways to change the sort order of the listings:

1. Open the settings module, and go to “View Settings”
2. When in list view, simply click on the icon next to “Name” to cycle through sorting options

One of the short comings

In list view, reversing the order is as simple as changing the flex-direction. Unfortunately, grid view is not so simple. Which is to say Z to A sorting is currently broken in grid view.