Originally Posted by TRRed
I noticed tonight when I searched that the found threads were not completely in ascending date order by last post. The majority were in that order, but a few (maybe 10%) of the threads with the most recent activity were scattered throughout the rest of the list. I didn't look to see if recent threads were also scattered in the hits listed on other than the first page.
Not a huge concern, but if in looking through the "programming" for other reasons you happen to see why that is occurring and it has an easy fix, that would be appreciated.
(FYI I'm using IE v. 6.0.2900 and XP SP 2)
I'm bumping as this appears to be getting worse. Instead of just today's threads being interspersed with the rest of the list on the first page, more of the threads are out of order rather than by "Last Posting Date." (And when I search, I am choosing to sort by "Last Posting Date" in descending order.) The problem appears to still be limited to the first page of the search: in a search with 3 pages of results, subsequent pages appear to be in the proper order. I can't discern any order to the way the results on the first page of the search appear: not Thread name, thread starter, replies, views, nor forum.
When I changed to sort in ascending order, the out of order posts appeared on both the second and third pages.
Thanks for looking into this.