The options under the Questions
tab are a mix of sort options and filter options. Newest
, Votes
and Active
sort the questions by those attributes and display ALL questions (thus making the label to the left All Questions
accurate). Featured
, Frequent
and Unanswered
, however, are filters and only show questions with bounties, questions with lots of answers/views (unclear) and questions with no accepted answers respectively. In other words, those three show a subset of the questions, thus making the label All Questions
inaccurate and confusing because it implies that these views are sorted views like the other three rather than filtered views.
It would be better if they were a) separated into sort and filter options, b) labeled to correctly reflect their respective behavior (i.e. "All" changes to "Featured/Frequent/Unanswered") or c) ?? I'm not sure the best answer, but the current design is misleading.