|
I use the content server a lot, but I had not seen this change. It's probably because I usually search for a specific set of books (by the same author) or I sort by title or series, not author.
Nonetheless, this change does seem odd. If I sorted on author in the content server, I suppose I'd expect it to use the author_sort field, as it does in the GUI. I don't think I'm sorting authors when I select that field, I think I'm sorting books, and I've come to think of that sorting as being controlled by the author_sort field. In Kovid's example of Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, I don't expect the author sorting to show anything under R or S. Previously I would have expected it to sort under A, now it seems to sort under I. It doesn't sort under both authors.
Respectfully, I don't understand this change either. If the author_sort field is available to the content server, then it's simply a matter of which field is used to sort when the author field is clicked. I'd prefer the author_sort, as that's what I expect.
If there was a "tweak" allowing the content server author sorting to be by author_sort, or a checkbox option, I'd use it.
|