The discussion revolves around the issue of tags not being displayed in alphabetical order despite the presence of a setting to enable this. AstonJ reports that changing the setting Show tags in alphabetical order has no effect on the /tags page, which always defaults to showing tags by popularity. neil clarifies that the setting was intended for the tag filter drop-down, but acknowledges that it should apply to the /tags page as well and promises to make the necessary changes.
AstonJ asks how to enable the tags dropdown, which cpradio responds to by pointing out the filter by tag option in Site Settings. AstonJ suggests that it would be more useful if the dropdown included a count of topics, like the tags page. cpradio indicates that this idea has not been suggested before.
neil updates the thread by announcing that he has pushed a fix to sort the tags index alphabetically by default if the setting is checked.
There is a setting in the ACP that says Show tags in alphabetical order. Default is to show in order of popularity but changing it has no effect on the /tags page - they are always shown by popularity by default (we want them to default to alphabetically).
Is this a bug or is this a setting for something else 
Could be a bug, lots of churn in that area as we move tags to core, cc @neil
That setting was meant for the tag filter drop-down, but you’re right that it should apply to the /tags page too. I’ll add that.
How can we enable a tags drop down like that @neil?
Site Settings > filter by tag
Oh nice!
It would be more useful if it has a count of topics like the tags page tho - do you know if that has been suggested anywhere?
Not to my knowledge.
I pushed a fix so tags index is sort alphabetically by default if that settings is checked.
