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Tutorials by descending creation date (click "Search")
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Re^2: Is there a way to get a list of the most recently-updated tutorials here?
by crumbly (Sexton) on Jun 19, 2009 at 04:17 UTC

    Thanks. Though, I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that one should do the following:

    1. Go to the "Super Search" page.
    2. Click the checkbox to only search in the Tutorial section.
    3. Select "Don't include replies".
    4. Hit the "Search" button (note: you haven't put any text to search for in any of the text fields).

    ?

    If so, that would show results sorted by creation date (rather than last-modified date), correct?

      Do you mean that one should do the following:

      Yes, although the following will do the first three for you.

      If so, that would show results sorted by creation date

      That's what I said. Not that there's much if any difference between sorting by creation date and sorting by modification date.

Re^2: Is there a way to get a list of the most recently-updated tutorials here?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 14:44 UTC

      Still not very user-friendly, though.

      Intentionally so. Since searching is very expensive, the devs want to not create a means of launching a search from a link.

        They don't want to create a means of launching a search from a link? But that's exactly what ordinary bracket links like pess or morn do if they don't match a title exactly.

        Agreed, but publication of a new tutorial is a very "rare event". A lazy mechanism that updates a list of recent tuts whenever a new tutorial is published could solve both problems - the OPs request (user-friendly embedded in Tutorials) and keeping the DB load small.