Changing the sort order in the “Saves” tab in the user profile does not update the view anymore. Only after a browser refresh are the saves displayed according to the newly selected order.
This happens on all sites tested so far (Meta SE, Math SE, Stack Overflow, and Code Review).
It was first noticed with rev 2024.3.1.5619 of the site software and was tested with:
I've got a fix pushed that should be live today or tomorrow. I fixed the other bug by adding back in some js that the Saves tab didn't have. However, that js also tries to run the Save sorts through the same route as the other tabs. Because the Saves feature is much newer, it was implemented separately from the other tabs... but still had some of the same classes in the sorting button group as the other tabs. The fix, once I figured it out, was super easy - just had to remove those classes.
I am fairly certain I haven't broken anything else but, famous last words and all. Please let me know if you continue to see any issues, thanks for your patience, and thanks for reporting!
rev 2024.3.5.5754 i.e. last update was yesterday when it still didn't work. Unless the rev is for "code behind" only, not client side?
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Mar 6 at 15:33
After digging into it, I believe I've found the probable cause, but sadly I can't fix or suggest a workaround.
When changing the sort order in the answers or questions tabs of the profile (which works fine), there's an AJAX request sent to https://meta.stackexchange.com/ajax/users/tab, followed by the user id, and giving which tab and what is the desired sort. E.g., the full URL would be https://meta.stackexchange.com/ajax/users/tab/152859?tab=answers&sort=activity. (There isn't any point in going there; first change the user id to be yours.)
So, what happens when trying to do it for Saves? This is the URL being requested: https://meta.stackexchange.com/ajax/users/tab/152859?sort=Activity. As you might notice, the "tab" parameter is missing, so the code behind doesn't know what data to pull, hence throwing 404 Not Found error.
I did try to manually add tab=Saves, tab=Bookmarks, and tab=Favorites but none works. It appears to require a change in the code-behind itself to support the rather-new Saves.
A simple but not very elegant workaround would be to right mouse click on one of the sort tabs and then select "Open link in new tab" (for Chrome, for example). This works on Windows desktop and also on Android (but it is a little fiddly on Android).
Alternatively, left mouse click on one of the sort tabs which changes the URL, but then you need to click the browser refresh button to get the new sort order to display.
