New threads created go to the end of the thread list (Thread list ordering)

[janogarcia]

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit a room with threads.
2. Open the thread panel to browse the current thread list.
3. Start a new thread.

Outcome

What did you expect?

The new thread to be added to the topmost position of the thread list.

What happened instead?

It seems to go like this. When you first visit a room and are just browsing it, the order for threads is correct, but as soon as you create a new thread it gets added to the last position in the stack, instead of the topmost.

Operating system

No response

Browser information

No response

URL for webapp

develop.element.io

Application version

Element version: c40dbf1-react-f59ea6d7adf5-js-230e3b4acee3 Olm version: 3.2.8

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

[janogarcia]

Top - Correct order

Bottom - New thread (posted @ 17:25) showing on the bottom of the list.

[germain-gg]

As discussed internally last week, this behaviour is quite tedious to implement for clients when dealing with a paginated API.

This is currently blocked on element-hq/element-meta#152 and the ordering will be based on the root thread rather than the last reply to a thread until we have a new sorting filter available server-side

[germain-gg]

Web now orders thread by the last reply time. In the future we will want this sorting to be done by the server, but for now we can consider this issue resolved

[janogarcia]

@gsouquet Awesome. Thanks for coming up with a workaround!