To put it lightly, it's a total mess. Here's a screenshot from the Exchange space: I tried all the sorting options, switching back and forth to Conversation start date/last post date - no effect. Makes browsing the spaces useless. Can we get it back to how it worked until yesterday please?

Thanks Allen. Yes, definitely looks better now, and I can live with the "newest" ordering logic. Here's a crazy thought - can you maybe get the devs to actually test their code before deploying next time? :)

And while we are still on the subject, can we get an increase of the number of threads loaded by default? The new limit of 5 is just too low and makes browsing the spaces to get new/updated conversations a drag.

Allen the issue is not the lack of robust/comprehensive testing of every feature, the issue is that even the most obvious bugs are pushed, without folks bothering to check the end result. Such as the case with the thread ordering in the last update - anyone that had bothered to browse any space after that update was pushed would have noticed that sorting is broken.

FWIW, the "latest conversations" box on the right seem to display the correct order.

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VasilMichev
MVP
Jan 08, 2019
FWIW, the "latest conversations" box on the right seem to display the correct order.
- Allen
  Community Manager
  Jan 08, 2019
  VasilMichev,
  
  I think you are correct, the 'Newest' filter doesn't always appear to order the posts correctly. I am asking our devs to take a look into this.
  
  I am also exploring with our devs if at the individual space level if we could have the old view along side the filters.. almost a filter like 'All'.. which shows the boards in the old way while allowing users who want to use the new filters to do so.
  - Allen
    Community Manager
    Jan 08, 2019
    VasilMichev
    
    We have just deployed a fix for this, note that newest still does not match 'latest conversations' this is because latest conversations only shows you the newest posts where as the 'Newest' filter shows you the latest activity so if there is a reply to a thread that would bring it to the top of the list.
    
    Hope that makes sense.
VasilMichev
MVP
Jan 08, 2019
Allen

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Thread ordering is broken