Challenges won't sort by newest

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When trying to sort the list of coding challenges by Newest (which the dropdown claims to be the default), they are actually sorted by Latest Activity. This is very clear given challenges are numbered!

Sorting by Highest Score and Latest Activity work as expected (although the dropdown still says sorted by Newest).

I found this error on MS Edge for Business, I have tried updating to the latest version (141.0.3537.57) and the bug persists. The same happens on Google Chrome (version 141.0.7390.55).

This is probably [status-bydesign] to avoid favoring the early bird see: New and improved coding challenges (I just realized that only talks about Highest score sorting but it might still be a result of that) — cafce25, Commented Oct 7 at 10:24
I read that and assumed they were referring to challenge entries, not the challenges themselves. Surely there is no benefit to messing with the ordering of the challenges themselves. — Luke Sharkey, Commented Oct 7 at 10:30
Ah, sorry I misread your question, this should indeed only be about entries, not challenges. But in that case I cannot reproduce your issue, the newest sorting does work fine for me. Maybe you can add additional details about your system, browser, ... so we can narrow down the issue. It also doesn't keep the same lable on the dropdown for me, I can't reproduce either of your issues. — cafce25, Commented Oct 7 at 10:33
Hmm, so it seems the last selected sort persists but isn't marked as selected in the dropdown when you open the challenges page again. If you select one of the other options and then switch back to Newest you'll see it then sorts correctly. — Abdul Aziz Barkat, Commented Oct 7 at 10:49
The dropdown always displays newest when I select the other options so it does not register as a change when I try to "switch back". — Luke Sharkey, Commented Oct 7 at 10:51
Seems like somehow Firefox preserves the option you just select even after the reload by JavaScript (and the HTML marking the first option as selected) so the switch that way works on Firefox. — Abdul Aziz Barkat, Commented Oct 7 at 11:08
thanks for reporting this - I'm looking into it. I made changes to sorting for challenge entries themselves as @cafce25 mentioned but didn't think I broke anything with the challenge list... famous last words! — kristinalustig, Commented Oct 7 at 13:03

kristinalustig · Accepted Answer · 2025-10-07 16:11:41Z

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Thanks for reporting! The issue here was that the frontend was always assuming that the sort was Newest, regardless of what was being returned from the backend. I fixed that, so the sort should respect your preferences both in how it's displaying AND in how it's sorting. The fix will be in production in a few hours, if you're still experience this issue tomorrow, please let me know.

answered Oct 7 at 16:11

kristinalustigStaffMod

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Hum, quite "a few hours" later (=> x31) and the day after "tomorrow", I can still reproduce the Issue... (FF143 + Win10_Pro)

chivracq
– chivracq

2025-10-08 23:40:16 +00:00
Commented Oct 8 at 23:40
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yeah, hmm. thanks, i'm looking into it again.

kristinalustig
– kristinalustig StaffMod

2025-10-09 15:34:07 +00:00
Commented Oct 9 at 15:34
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Welp, nobody actually deployed anything to prod since Monday :facepalm: guess it's my turn to press the scary button. It should actually be fixed within the hour.

kristinalustig
– kristinalustig StaffMod

2025-10-09 15:49:58 +00:00
Commented Oct 9 at 15:49
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Yep, looks (already = 20 min later) good to me...! (Tested on FF143 + Win10_Pro.)

chivracq
– chivracq

2025-10-09 16:11:41 +00:00
Commented Oct 9 at 16:11

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