Regarding these sorting issues: I encourage people to report issues with the forum functionality (not appearance or styles or anything JNC-specific) to the authors of the forum software here: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues . I will try to make time to look in to such issues, but I would have to spend a decent chunk of time getting familiar with a completely new codebase when I already have many other site issues to deal with, so I can't guarantee non-critical complaints will be addressed quickly. For anyone who does want to report these issues, we have the following setup:
NodeBB v1.13.2 with the following active plugins:
nodebb-plugin-composer-default
Installed 6.3.21 | Latest 6.3.21
nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
Installed 4.0.7 | Latest 4.0.7
nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun
Installed 1.0.3 | Latest 1.0.3
nodebb-plugin-markdown
Installed 8.11.0 | Latest 8.11.0
nodebb-plugin-mentions
Installed 2.7.4 | Latest 2.7.4
nodebb-plugin-ns-spoiler
Installed 7.0.0 | Latest 4.1.0
nodebb-plugin-poll
Installed 0.3.3 | Latest 0.3.3
nodebb-plugin-session-sharing
Installed 4.6.5 | Latest 4.6.5
nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default
Installed 1.0.0 | Latest 1.0.0
nodebb-plugin-user-css
Installed 0.0.1 | Latest 0.0.1
nodebb-plugin-write-api
Installed 5.5.5 | Latest 5.5.5
nodebb-rewards-essentials
Installed 0.1.2 | Latest 0.1.2
nodebb-theme-persona
Installed 10.1.34 | Latest 10.1.34
nodebb-widget-essentials
Installed 4.0.18 | Latest 4.0.18