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The threads are no longer sorted by date, not for first post, or for most recent post. When I change between sort by date ascending and descending, I do get two different results, and the results are consistent, but they are not sorted by date. But I don't understand what is determining the sort order, and I'd like to know how to correctly sort by date.

Do you mean sort by Post time? I don't have sort by Date in the drop down menu, but sort by Post time works as expected for me.

Yes, time. I made a new thread, and for me it is in the middle of the page instead of the top. The first 9 unpinned threads are all 2016 and 2017, both in first post and in most recent reply.

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Oh, I think I just figured it out. I think maybe, it is putting threads which have a moderator post in them at the top of the results. Is there any way to stop this behavior?

Or maybe not, I don't know, what does the "!" icon on the left mean? Why are they pushed to the top instead of being sorted by date?

Alright, okay. I just realized that "announcement" and "pinned" are two different things! Two different ways of pushing threads to the top, some are separate, and some are kind-of mixed in with the others but not really. There are just a huge number of them on that page. It would also be nice, if the tooltip for the forum icon also indicated that it means pinned rather than only saying if it's read or unread. It looked like the sorting was broken.

Topics are sorted by date of last post within their own category :
1st : Announcements
2nd : stickies
3rd : regular posts