Eureeka! Or how my friends list seems to be ordered...

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Ok, many of you may have seen my discussion from some time ago wondering how friends lists are put in order. It doesn't often seem to make sense to me, so I've been trying to figure it out for some time now. Today I noticed something that may be my first clue. It seems they are very roughly in order by number of posts, but not in the way you and I would think. Right now the post numbers of the folks on the first page of my list are (in this order) 898, 955, 86, 998, 94, 923, 882, 909, 99, 9755, 990, 8375, 92, 97, and 94. All numbers starting with nine or eight. So, I think the first digit of your number of posts determines what page you are on. After that, it seems that each individual page is in alphabetical order. The first few letters of the names on that same list are (in this order) dra, est, im4, jul, jun, jus, kbk, len, mag, msg, por, raj, shi, ven, win. Anyway, I was so happy that I finally figured this out that I just thought I'd share it with everyone. Let me know if my hypothesis proves true on your friends list.