How to show topics ordered by date of publishing via user interface?

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

Ah, due to publishing on the fediverse the first post is not possible to be changed any more.

Here my intended edit:

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For some categories and tags (like announcements and new-feature) I would like to have a view with ordering depending on the date of the first post.

These solutions are available already:

Use Query Strings to Filter Topic Views

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A preset for sorting can be adjusted via category configuration:

@JammyDodger

For categories you can set this on the Settings tab of the Category Wrench:

How to make this available as “filter options” via ui?