I don’t know if this is due to a recent change or if it’s always been like that, but when I go to /edit/settings and choose sort by creation date (descending), I expect to see topics sorted by creation date. However, I’m getting topics sorted by last activity. Is it just me? Edit: I edited the cat…

[image] Nacho Caballero: I edited the category, changed it to order by activity and saved it. They I edited it again and changed it to order by created and saved it. Now it appears to work again. A few hours after this change, I checked again and the order went back to decreasing activity ins…

Can you post a screenshot of the desktop view vs mobile view? I know asking this might sound silly, but sometimes there are obvious things we can miss :slight_smile:

I think I’ve found one possible source of confusion: the category/tag links on the homepage (class=“subcategory”) point to the /latest endpoint of that category. Even though it doesn’t show up on the URL, you can see it in the Network tab: [CleanShot 2023-08-08 at 10.57.10@2x] But if I reload the…

Could you record this behavior or screenshot the elements that link to /latest when they shouldn’t in your opinion? When I have a category ordered by creation date, whether it’s a parent or subcategory, navigating through the navigation bar [image] doesn’t redirect to /latest for me, so I current…

I mean these links: [CleanShot 2023-08-08 at 12.20.33@2x] Check in the Network tab in the developer tools (it doesn’t show up on the URL) and compare it to reloading the page.

Thank you! I think it’s indeed not the desired behavior, especially since the category links from the sidebar link to /id. I’d say it’s not exactly a bug, but something that has been overlooked. Can you make a new topic with detailed explanations and screenshots in bug (we’ll recategorize it later…

Just to round this one out - This was indeed a bug, and fixed in: [image] Category links should honor category order settings Bug Hi @Nacho_Caballero - I just pushed a second fix which should get things working as expected: https://github.com/discourse/d…

Sorting by creation date doesn't work

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JammyDodger September 11, 2023, 12:19pm 11

Just to round this one out - This was indeed a bug, and fixed in:

Topic		Replies	Views
Category links should honor category order settings Bug	5	538	September 6, 2023
Call me stupid - how do I sort topics by created date or by title? Support	8	2426	June 11, 2020
Show Latest topics, not by comment on home page Support	4	933	August 23, 2022
Category topics not sorted correctly Support	2	799	July 6, 2020
How I can sort topics by topic creation date? Support	9	2811	March 5, 2015

Sorting by creation date doesn't work

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