# Replies in thread showing out of order

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/replies-in-thread-showing-out-of-order/166512
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 7, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replies-in-thread-showing-out-of-order/166512 "2020-10-07T08:54:58Z")
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### Author: ![AJDurant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ajdurant/32/196334_2.png) [@AJDurant](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AJDurant)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replies-in-thread-showing-out-of-order/166512/9 "2020-11-10T12:01:08Z")

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I don’t understand it either, I couldn’t find any reason for it when looking through the code. Something seems to modify the sort order, but I can’t see what.

I thought that they had gone out of order when I ran an upgrade, as the messages that were out of order were generally much older, and had previously appeared in an expected place. When I fan the SQL above all seemed well, but then the other week a couple of brand new posts have also now appeared out of order. I think the posts it affects are always replies to another post. eg:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/f/5f27a02b5d8b3398209dd93c8c7bac12a1eb55dd.png)

We have the following plugins installed:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/25f470004cc40a9f3220efef1f7a2492309dd4b2.png)

I guess question-answer modifies the sort order, but that should only affect question topics, not general ones.

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