Yes, I caused this the other day by changing the default sort on latest… and was similarly kind of at a loss for the options we present:
We do have the ability to change the default filter (default topic list)… I started off with this, but then realized that ordering for votes appeared differently for anons? haven’t dug into why that is yet.
So then I noticed that there’s another option topic list sort by where votes is also an option, and this one is consistently sorted for everyone… so I used that.
We should probably not have votes in topic list sort by (because it’s not a sortable column) and rely on default topic list and sort out why that wasn’t working as expected.