Please open an issue on our github tracker, I am not sure if we should just remove the saving to user settings in the sort dropdown all together and move the sort settings to /user/<slug>/settings like everything else. Then you can change the sort order in every topic without effecting your settings. The setting used in the user page would be the default sort when you enter a topic.

This will be available in 1.18.4 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/9845

@Pixel he wants the sorting decision to only apply to the topic he's in, not to every topic he goes to after.

@julian I was tempted to charge it for 20 minutes and taking the screenshot again for that exact reason. 😆

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/GmD1WUT.png