When I search for topics and posts, with the Sort by Latest Post option, I see that the order is not at all sorted by latest post. MASS MERGE RECORDINGS and MERGE HELPOR 2 are the last updated topics (19h), and they should have come first in the list. They actually come first when using Sort by Re…

I think it’s because you search in:first. The post you get as a result is not 19h old, it seems to be from 2017. But I understand your problem. If searching in:first there is no difference between sort by latest post and sort by latest topic. https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=%40Discourse%20%23h…

I don’t think this is a bug? If you use the in:first filter by latest it will give you the results of the first post in date order. This seems to be working as expected?

As it’s a topic search result list with the latest option, I think we could expect it to be ordered with recently updated topic on top. Even if we use in:first to narrow down the results drastically. Maybe it would be a feature instead of a bug? Oh but yes, I can use by relevanceto get what I wan…

Weird sort order when search topics/posts with "in:first" and "order:latest" combination

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jesus2099 August 25, 2022, 1:07pm 3

Thank you @Moin, you found the cause!
I have updated the topic title.
Using the default Sort by Relevance seems like a nice workaround, anyway.

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Weird sort order when search topics/posts with "in:first" and "order:latest" combination

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