Feature Request: Collection - Order by Date option

[PJCanuck]

The default option is Order by Name, which is ideal in many cases.
I think the next most common way people would want to sort a Collection is by publication date.
Manual Ordering is fine when there aren't many elements.
Having an Order by Date option (using the release date of the first item in the element) would greatly simplify the process and save time.
For example, my Spider-Man Collection has over 300 elements and my X-Men Collection has over 250. For me, the logical way to sort these titles is by date. It's a very time-consuming task to do this manually.

[gotson]

I think the next most common way people would want to sort a Collection is by publication date.

that is not necessarily true

[PJCanuck]

Regardless of its exact ranking in popularity, it's an option that could be automated and would save users time trying to replicate it via manual ordering.
Obviously, it depends on your underlying architecture and how much effort it requires to shoehorn in a new idea. As a former software engineer, I know that "simple" features are often not simple at all!