Surfacing requests with lots of followers

[RichardTaylor]

• Make it generally possible to order lists of requests by number of followers
• Have a page listing recent successful requests ordered by number of followers

While I get the impression following others' requests isn't a widely used feature, perhaps it would be if the effect of following was to get the request promoted and given greater visibility.

This could be a way to identify good, or notable, uses of the services.

[WilliamWDTK]

They do this on AskTheEU.org, although I think it is all-time, rather than recent, since the requests listed are old:

It would probably better to do it with recent ones.

[RichardTaylor]

They do this on AskTheEU.org

That reminded me that the suggestion of highlighting requests with the most followers was mentioned on an issue for improving the WhatDoTheyKnow front page:

mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#791 (comment)

[FOIMonkey]

I don't think that the current top tracked requests are ones that we'd particularly want to highlight.

[HelenWDTK]

This issue has been automatically closed due to a lack of discussion or resolution for over 12 months.
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