Lee Carré lotheric,
It cannot work client-side, because of (server-side) pagination.

If sorting can be done client side, please consider fixing https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-11748

Lee Carré, I wasn't familiar with TableTools2, but from https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/what-happened-to-tabletools2-can-we-get-it-back/53226, it sounds like it hasn't worked for ~5 years – is there a newer supported version? I'd be worried about the potential for breaking a page's JavaScript when reordering table rows (what if there are bound functions using the original indexes?).

A client-side approach also seems like it wouldn't work with paginated lists, e.g. an artist page with many releases.

This is likely better implemented in User Agents (browsers). Such as via the TableTools2 add-on for Mozilla.

ebz777, I have added MBS-13699 for collection rating sort.

So we have what comes across as a bit of an ad-hoc sorting method on the user tag table (top left): https://musicbrainz.org/user/aerozol/tags

But nowhere else? A standard really needs to looked into before everything gets coded twice.

Not strictly related to this ticket but Ian McEwen was mentionning in 2013 that Collections are now sortable by all fields. I wanted to mention that at this date Collections cannot yet be sorted by Rating though.

I'm not actively working on this, so I'm unassigning it. I think this may need to happen post-NES, to prevent some serious duplication of work. I may, however, take it on in musicbrainz-data-service, which is where the duplication would otherwise be.

In-progress work on this ticket is available on http://ianmcorvidae.mbsandbox.org/ – at the time of this writing, release lists for artists and labels (with the exception of Various Artists) are sortable.

Collections are now sortable by all fields. Obviously not strictly related to this ticket, but since it was mentioned in the thread I thought I'd mention