Not having this is becoming a large pain point for us. We're using Discussions as a documentation portal as well, but without being able to sort from newest to oldest (by creation date), a lot of context is lost as to what the most recently written articles are.

I would be interested too. For example here are news, where sorting by creation date would be helpful. It would be lovely to look through the announcements of our community in a chronological order. I think it would make it more intuitive to find past announcements, e.g. product releases, as I remember them in the order they were posted.

It looks like the filter sort:date_created is available now. Here's an example category sorted by date. Nice work.

I wouldn't say this is sufficiant for e.g. technical support. If a support question of somebody is missed because there are too many other discussions going on, this user will not get help. Adding a filter like the proposed solution might give him an answer.

Exactly -- it can sometimes be hard to keep track otherwise, and can easily lead to folks getting missed from (not just an answer, but) a response perspective.

'Totally agree. We're moving from SourceForge forums to GitHub Discussions, but this is one of the most annoying missing functions.

See: https://sourceforge.net/p/llcon/discussion/533517/thread/096167a246/?page=3&limit=25#2270

I hope more users would vote for this! Actually I think this should be quite easy to implement.

This is definitely not sufficient, just confusing. There should be a way to show discussions in a consistent order.