Is there a way to force posts to display in chronological order? I have topics on my forum that sometimes push reply posts down to the very end, rather than staying in chronological order. (I don’t understand precisely when this behavior happens.) For example, here I have two recent posts followed …

Not an answer, but it’s worth noting that the incorrect order happens even in safe mode . I’ve never seen this before.

Did some of these posts get merged in from another topic?

Got it, thank you for the help! Is there any way to re-sort these posts chronologically?

I’ve had this happen in a thread where I’m 100% confident that no merge occurred; the “reply” post got pushed down to the bottom, out of chronological order. Is there any way that we can fix this? For example, note that the “3d” post is below the “2d” post here: [image] (Ironically, this happene…

I’m not aware of any way this can happen other than topic merges. The other possibility is some kind of underlying issue with the install?

Topic replies are not displaying in chronological order?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 24, 2020, 9:32pm 4

Yes, it looks like staff merged posts into the topic. You may want to have a discussion with your staff members about that.

Topic		Replies	Views
Re-order merged posts Support	4	754	August 16, 2022
Replies in thread showing out of order Support	13	2534	December 2, 2020
It's very surprising for "merge topics chronologically" to replace the first post of the target existing topic! Feature	7	656	October 12, 2026
Moving posts into an existing topic doesn't keep chronology Feature completed	43	10796	June 12, 2023
Moved posts to existing topic - dates out of order Support	6	1000	November 6, 2023

Topic replies are not displaying in chronological order?

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