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Since recently (7 Dec 2024?), the "Newest Questions" tab (/questions?tab=Newest) now showing the last active user instead of the asker.

This applies to every site.

I'm not sure if this is intended or a bug. If it's intended, could we know the reason for the change? If it's a bug, there was a similar issue back then in 2013, though it only affected the mobile view (when the desktop view and mobile view were separated).

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    On Mathematics Meta: question orders "Newest" and "Active" working strangely. I did not find other posts about this issue.
    – Martin
    Commented Dec 7 at 16:13
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    This is a bug. I noticed this yesterday on a few sites as well. Also, if you select a tag, like "discussion", then all the questions in the list show the asker, as expected.
    – toolic
    Commented Dec 7 at 16:42
  • Ditto here, sites and their METAs, starting yesterday.
    – W.O.
    Commented Dec 7 at 16:46
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    You can use is:q in search as a workaround
    – Laurel
    Commented Dec 7 at 16:50
  • Was I correct in concluding that the "Newest" ordering really does put the questions in order of time asked, but now not necessarily showing the asker and the time asked in the lower right field?
    – Will Jagy
    Commented Dec 7 at 17:15
  • @WillJagy yeah, the ordering is still correct, only the user info is not as usual.
    – Meta Andrew T.
    Commented Dec 8 at 14:42
  • I hope it is a bug and that it is fixed.
    – Buffy
    Commented Dec 8 at 20:30
  • @Buffy It appears not to be fixed from here, then it is Sunday, not a work day.
    – W.O.
    Commented Dec 8 at 21:29
  • @emanresuA it isn't?
    – VLAZ
    Commented Dec 8 at 21:38
  • @W.O., I should have said I hope it gets fixed. I'm also seeing most recent answer (at Academia) as well as latest edit.
    – Buffy
    Commented Dec 8 at 21:39
  • Seeing this here and in SU, but not SO. But I have a complex search filter in SO, so per @toolic comment above, that may be why.
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Commented Dec 9 at 14:46
  • @JeffZeitlin see my previous comment.
    – VLAZ
    Commented Dec 9 at 14:51
  • @VLAZ - That's what I see in SU and Meta and pretty much everything else, but I don't see it in SO. I have a complex search filter set for SO, though, thus my previous comment.
    – Jeff Zeitlin
    Commented Dec 9 at 14:58
  • @JeffZeitlin when I was writing my comment, yours didn't have that detail in it. Yes, appears to work on pages other than the one that the question mentions and shows. But the same is true for every other site - on MSE, click on a tag and go to Newest. It will only show the asker and the creation date. But go to SO to /questions and sort by newest and you will see the last action for each post. As my screenshot demonstrates.
    – VLAZ
    Commented Dec 9 at 15:07
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    Looks like it has been fixed as early as 7 hours ago.
    – Meta Andrew T.
    Commented Dec 11 at 1:39

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