I do a search for a question I would like to answer It defaults the results to most "relevant" (which usually isn't).
I try to get to newest, so I can see questions that aren't three years old and still open, and it doesn't change the sort. Trying the other sort options is the same, you cannot seem to sort the questions anymore, you just have to accept the default.
Grinch
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Right, right ... It's a known issue on Answers, and has been a problem for approaching 2 weeks now.
The workaround at the moment is to use the Advanced Search feature of the Saved Search option, which will still sort questions according to the parameters you set.
If you want to complain, there are several open threads on the Y!A UserVoice forum (which staff does read) but no response from any staff member has been given yet (that I'm aware of, anyway). Here's the link to the most popular of those threads:
https://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/211240-us-answers/suggestions/6856943-the-newest-button-has-stopped-sorting-questions
Leanne
Yahoo needs to get this fixed ASAP or they're going to loose to Google. It's been too long and their customer service is non existent! I don't want to move bc I like yahoo… but it's getting real close!
Anonymous
Search hasn't been working for some time. They are aware of it - so hopefully at some point they will manage to sort it out again.
Nobody
If it has been only two weeks then that is only a day in Yahoo time. Yahoo time is Doctor Who, or Star Trek, or perhaps the Dream World. Time moves slower in Yahoo time, to them to fix the problem in a fast and convenient manner is something that can happen but only after months have passed.