Over on Blender Artists we use the Topic List Preview plugin for a row of featured artworks. The plugin uses the tagging date to sort the posts - the most recently tagged post will appear on the left.
When you click through to the tag listing the sorting order changes from tagging date to last post date, which is confusing to users. Is there a way to change the sorting option to tagging date instead, perhaps by adding a parameter to the URL?
For the featured row this is supported by TLP, but not for regular tag pages like /tag/featured. Not sure if this would require core support or TLP support @merefield ?
I don’t mess with Topic order in the main routes in TLP. I currently don’t intend to in part because its just additional complexity on an already pretty complex add-in.