"Reorder Site Awards" rework: Reset award order button, save states/backups for award configurations, and more

[FIareon]

[First paragraphs are context and reasoning, scroll down for my ideas]

Many users like to customize their award walls, whether it be by date of mastery/completion (the default), franchise, importance, difficulty, color, artstyle, console, mainline series progression, or whatever other lavish order they desire to show off. This is possible with the Reorder Site Awards feature, though it has to be manually configured each time. This isn't usually that big of a problem for people with less masteries/completions, as there are only a few games to switch around, but it quickly becomes a problem for people with hundreds and hundreds to even thousands of masteries/completions.

Just as the decorative potential grows as you gain more icons in your Awards list, the difficulty of achieving that effect grows with it. Different sorting order types grow in difficulty more exponentially, such as ordering by mastery/completion date and console, as those usually require looking deeper into the website and each individual game, not just the icons themselves. This means that people tend to decide what sorting order they'll use for their awards from the beginning, and add on to it as they gain masteries. And with it, the sunk cost fallacy slowly takes its toll. Eventually, if they decide to change what order they want their awards to be in, they may be demotivated from doing so, as they already spent god knows how long ordering their awards the way they are now, and it'd require a very big time investment if they ever wanted to turn back.

Or even be impossible, can you imagine ordering 1000 awards by mastery date, looking at them one by one in the Progress viewer? Ugh...

So I propose these wonderfully modular ideas:

1.1. A "Reset Order of Awards" button, which simply orders the awards to be sorted by date of mastery/completion, as they are by default. This would save hours for people looking to sort them this way again. Preferably with a confirmation prompt, so it can't be pressed accidentally.
1.2. OR, by EXTENT, buttons/filters that automatically order awards by category! Many game search pages and hubs already offer features to order games by rarity, console, title, players, game type, etc... so this would be a very nice thing to have to remove a ton of the manual sorting that could just be done computationally! Imagine just pressing a button every few masteries and having it all be nicely sorted. I'm sure there's a way, right?

2. Ability to create save states/backups/whatever of your Award Order, which you can load at any time, to be able to swap between all the custom configurations you want. To account for new awards gained after a save/backup, they'd appear at the bottom when loaded so you can integrate them into your save/backup and update it anew. Since all these names could be confusing, considering the fact that there's already a Save All Changes button, things could be renamed to be distinct from each other.

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Some of the ideas are certainly more ambitious than others, but some of them seem very feasible. I'd love to see some be considered so I can reorder my awards without worry.

Thank you for reading ❤️