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In the user profile page visible communities sorted by earned reputation. For hidden communities sort order is differs. As far as I see they sorted by hiding time (oldest is first):

communities

More over this sorting is differs on the Edit Profile & Settings page:

settings

What is a purpose to use different sort orders here? Should it make same as made for visible communities (I mean only for list on the first picture)?

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  • It appears that the visible and hidden communities under the Settings / Hide communities option are in alphabetical order now. I notice that yours is not in alphabetical order, so there seems to have been a change in this listing at some point. Is your listing in alphabetical order now too?
    – PeterJames
    Commented Mar 6 at 14:44
  • @PeterJames no, the order still looks shuffled for me.
    – αλεχολυτ
    Commented Mar 6 at 14:55
  • OK, so the order is alphabetical URL order of the site. The URL for "Ask Different" is apple.stackexchange.com and this explains why it comes before Area51. That probably means that nothing has changed since you posted this.
    – PeterJames
    Commented Mar 6 at 15:06
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    @PeterJames Please note that this ordering is coincidental, not intentional, and could change at any time. I'm not going to go deep here but, in several places on the site, lack of apparent sorting (and defaulting to something you might observe as logical) has to do with how SQL Server handles a missing (or non-deterministic) ORDER BY, and how it handles that can change based on a variety of factors.
    – Aaron Bertrand Staff
    Commented Mar 6 at 16:24

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