Strange ways things are ordered

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I have noticed a few peculiar ways that things are ordered regarding  countries and their historical currencies on this website.

For example, in the coin section for Cape Verde, the colonial currency (IE the Portuguese colonial issue) is displayed after the current currency (IE the sovereign country of Cape Verde's own issue); for pretty much every other country, it is the other way around.

And I have noticed on the map in the “my coins” section, some names of countries past and present of which occupied the same present-day territory are shown in a strange order as well:

One example is Burundi and Rwanda, and the mention of legacy Congolese currencies when overlayed on the same country if I were to hover the mouse cursor over them.

For Burundi, it says “Belgian Congo… x coins” then below it says “Belgian Congo & Rwanda-Urundi…. x coins” then below that line it says “Burundi… x coins”: meaning Burundi is on the bottom line.

But for Rwanda, “Rwanda… x coins” appears as the first line, then the 2 successive lines will be “Belgian Congo” and “Belgian Congo & Rwanda-Urundi”. This is opposite to Burundi, as Rwanda is mentioned as the top line.

 

This does not make any sense because this clearly is nothing to do with chronological issue (both Rwanda and Burundi are current countries), nothing to do with alphabetical order (both Rwanda and Burundi are alphabetically after Belgian Congo).

Also there are other odd orders like for example with Kenya: the order is East Africa, then Kenya, then Mombasa (but I am guessing that is because Mombasa is a sub-issuer under the “Kenya” page hence why Mombasa comes after Kenya in this order)

Anthony Boys

Hello,

Thank you for reporting these issues. I fixed the dates for Cape-Verde: the currencies will be shown in the correct order starting tomorrow.

The issuers on the map of your coins is currently not sorted in any specific order.

OK thanks for your reply.
I guess there is no way to manually sort the order of the issuers?
It seems a bit arbitrary to me how they are done. Of course, it's no major issue, but just something that I couldn't help but notice.

Anthony Boys

Also strange:

 

Monbasa and Kenya are part of Kenya
Monbasa is different from Kenya while still being part of Kenya
There are therefore two Kenya: Kenya and part of Kenya

This is found in several countries

BOINC

Yes I am aware that there are multiple issuers for some countries.
My main observation that each country's issuers are not ordered in a uniform way; see my comment RE how Rwanda's and Burundi's sub-sections are ordered when compared with each other.

Anthony Boys

Perhaps a better way to display this would be to have the country name at the top of the pop-up box (and preferrably in bold, capital letters, thus forming a title) that appears when the mouse is hovered over that country, and then within the box, below the title then the issuers could be displayed in the order they are in presently.

Another observation is that these issuers, despite not being ordered chronologically nor alphabetically, are also not ordered based on the amount of coins that I have for each issuer!

Anthony Boys

Also I have noticed that French Equatorial Africa is shown in the list after Central African States!

Anthony Boys

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