If you've recently used the mixed sort and found it useful, please leave a comment so I know you exist.
Right now it has the option to sort markets with a custom user-defined sort order, allowing you to mix together the other orders. This is theoretically quite useful; for example if you want to see markets with the most potential alpha, you can do a sort that mixes "close to 50%" with "high liquidity", so that markets with both are displayed at the top, and you can scroll down in decreasing order.
In practice though, it seems that people prefer to use filters for this sort of thing. In the previous example, they might narrow down the markets to "only markets between 40% and 60%", and then sort by liquidity. This is less elegant, but has a similar outcome.
If nobody is using the mixed sort, then I may as well remove it, since it's additional maintenance work, and it makes the sorting algorithm a bit slower.
If you've recently used the mixed sort and found it useful, please leave a comment so I know you exist.
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@JohnSmithb9be Absolutely! Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for it.
@IsaacKing I use it and like it, but as you say I can accomplish many of the same things. If it's enough development burden that getting rid of it would enable working on other features faster, then you should make the trade however you think best and not feel stuck with it on my account!
@IsaacKing Since you implemented it per my suggestion I’ve been much less active here on Manifold lately ( at least exploring) and have seemingly become more selective in choosing questions so I find it difficult to find questions where I speculate I could add any value (when I was more profit seeking this seemed much more useful). As a result I’ve rarely used your site in the last month or so..