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.
Alternative Topic Sorting
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Just committed https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/7610c11cd1b9de53ce185227ab80f86d55d3bd69, this is a pretty big change even though it's just ~300 lines of code. It changes how we store the main post so that alternative sorting works.
If anyone decides to upgrade please make a backup of your database just incase something goes wrong, I have tested it on this forums dataset and it seemed OK but you never know :). Will do more testing as we get closer to 0.5.0.
There are 3 options to sort oldest to newest, newest to oldest and most votes. The sorting can be changed from a dropdown in the bar below the main post and it is saved as a user setting. The admin can also select a default setting from the ACP.
Let us know if you encouter any bugs.
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Awesome! Is this on mobile too? Can't find it.
