Forums are a tool that some teams are using to do things that one might not think of using them to do.   Currently one of our team uses a forums channel/widget to track ownership of notebooks,  and manage the sharing of confidential information.  Alternatively, another team is using several forums to manage non-project work assignments/efforts, capture of task record in relationship to a topic, facilitate communication with managers, and most creatively as an agenda to conduct team meetings. Description of how this works is a bit complex, but the idea that widgets like forums are being used for more than their intended use is something we know that developers must consider .  Currently we are trying to make the "Show" and "Sort" by filters work for our purpose, but I must admit that end-users are a bit disappointed by the sort options currently available.  Our teams brainstormed to come up with a universal sort by option that could help both teams and this is what we came up with.  We would like to see a Alpha/Numeric "Sort by" option.  From our perspective, it offers teams a new and helpful way to view their lists of forum topics.  Displays could be set in ascending/descending order, based on entries made in the "Title" field.  Not 100% confident,  I would like to put the idea out their and ask if anyone has a use cases that would be challenged by the addition of an alpha numeric "Sort by" option?  If not, I would like to request development of this tool, adding a new sort option.    Any thoughts???