Local news list sorting

[PeterNerlich]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes local news (push notifications) that are older than 28 days appear in the message list / seemingly out of order. This is confusing.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Sort the news by max(last_updated, timestamp) timestamp
• Set timestamp to max(last_updated, timestamp) timestamp` (TBD)
• Filter out news where lastUpdate > 28 days

Describe alternatives you've considered

Leave it as is

Additional context

CMS issue: digitalfabrik/integreat-cms#2994

This was discussed in the Integreat CMS team, we concluded that there is nothing in our API that would influence this and it has to be implemented on app side.

[ztefanie]

@PeterNerlich Thanks for this issue.
What do you mean by message list? This one: https://integreat.app/testumgebung/de/news/local

[PeterNerlich]

@ztefanie Yes, that one

[steffenkleinle]

@PeterNerlich do you know whether we should filter out news that are older than 28 days? Or should filtering still be done exclusively in the CMS? If we filter in the apps, we'd have another place we'd have to adjust this time period if we ever decide to change it. I also remember some discussions about that.

@nikolahoff Furthermore, our last update timestamp should also reflect the same logic (i.e. lastUpdate = max(sent, last_modified)), correct? Otherwise just sorting differently could still confuse if the sorting behavior is not comprehensable.

[PeterNerlich]

@PeterNerlich do you know whether we should filter out news that are older than 28 days?

I have not worked on this part of the API and don't know past discussions around that, but as we do already limit which results we put out, so there is no need to do that on app side. This issue is only about sorting, e.g. when news are edited and should thus appear as recent again.

[steffenkleinle]

@PeterNerlich do you know whether we should filter out news that are older than 28 days?

I have not worked on this part of the API and don't know past discussions around that, but as we do already limit which results we put out, so there is no need to do that on app side. This issue is only about sorting, e.g. when news are edited and should thus appear as recent again.

Thank you @PeterNerlich for the explanation.