# Problem creating latest?ordered=created link in sidebar

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-creating-latest-ordered-created-link-in-sidebar/381085
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** sidebar
**Created:** [August 31, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-creating-latest-ordered-created-link-in-sidebar/381085 "2025-08-31T23:19:31Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-creating-latest-ordered-created-link-in-sidebar/381085/8 "2025-09-21T18:50:55Z")

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To me, that feels like another occurrence of the problem that links in the sidebar do not remove any prior query parameters.

When I add two links with different parameters, it works. For example, `/latest?order=activity` and `/latest?order=created`. But `topics` takes me to the list as I had ordered it before. So when I start at `/latest?order=created`, go to `/c/support/6` and use “topics” from the sidebar to get back to latest the “order=created” parameter is still there.

Last year, I reported the parameter being sticky when the group page was filtered for a username.

> [@How do I remove the user filter at the groups page?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-remove-the-user-filter-at-the-groups-page/316503):
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> When you click the 3 dots at a user profile[[1]](#footnote-1560213-1) to see all the groups the user is a member of (and where you are allowed to know that), you are taken to a filtered group page: For example [https://meta.discourse.org/g?username=Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/g?username=Discourse). When I continue browsing the forum and later use the link to the groups page in the sidebar, I still see only the groups of that user. Is it possible to remove that filter without editing the URL? [image]

In his reply, Jammy mentioned that he noticed it on `?status=deleted`, and I mentioned `?order=votes`.

I also mentioned sticky filters here

> [@Failed filtering is difficult to escape](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-filtering-is-difficult-to-escape/375607/1):
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> I know filters are in general quite sticky

I see why one might say it’s a feature for the `/filter` route. Maybe it’s helpful that what you had filtered before is still there when you use the filter link in the sidebar later. But in the context of topic lists like `/latest` or the group list or the review queue, I think this is confusing. I don’t want a filtered group list, and I don’t want a filtered review queue after using the link in the sidebar.

The user directory is the only exception I can think of that, even if you leave it on `/u?order=post_count&period=daily`, opens on `/u?order=likes_received` when you use the link in the sidebar.

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