Conversation messages are unsorted

[eatyourgreens]

Reported on Talk by am.zooni and a couple of other people. Only seems to occur for relatively long PM conversations.

The PM inbox requests conversation messages by conversation_id without specifying a sort order.
talkClient.type('messages').get({conversation_id, page_size: count}) # show all of them

I'd expect the resulting query to come back sorted by message ID, but the responses are being returned in a seemingly random order. This makes it pretty much impossible to follow the thread of a conversation in your inbox.

Here's a sample response supplied by am.zooni for conversation 2387

{
"messages": [
{
"href": "/messages/8753",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-17T01:39:47.384Z",
"id": "8753",
"updated_at": "2017-03-17T01:39:47.384Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/8754",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-17T13:47:38.960Z",
"id": "8754",
"updated_at": "2017-03-17T13:47:38.960Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9240",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:54:13.078Z",
"id": "9240",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:54:13.078Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9234",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:14:57.974Z",
"id": "9234",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:14:57.974Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9235",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:33:11.244Z",
"id": "9235",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:33:11.244Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9238",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:50:00.292Z",
"id": "9238",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:50:00.292Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9236",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:40:12.405Z",
"id": "9236",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:40:12.405Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9237",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-03-30T23:44:40.143Z",
"id": "9237",
"updated_at": "2017-03-30T23:44:40.143Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9876",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-16T12:12:15.812Z",
"id": "9876",
"updated_at": "2017-04-16T12:12:15.812Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9877",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-16T13:47:05.596Z",
"id": "9877",
"updated_at": "2017-04-16T13:47:05.596Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/9931",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-17T17:14:04.507Z",
"id": "9931",
"updated_at": "2017-04-17T17:14:04.507Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/10038",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1300590"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-20T01:22:40.849Z",
"id": "10038",
"updated_at": "2017-04-20T01:22:40.849Z",
"user_id": "1300590"
},
{
"href": "/messages/10039",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-20T01:38:40.600Z",
"id": "10039",
"updated_at": "2017-04-20T01:38:40.600Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
},
{
"href": "/messages/10032",
"links": {
"conversation": "2387",
"user": "1220914"
},
"body": "<snip>",
"conversation_id": "2387",
"created_at": "2017-04-19T23:36:58.259Z",
"id": "10032",
"updated_at": "2017-04-19T23:36:58.259Z",
"user_id": "1220914"
}
],
"links": {
"messages.conversation": {
"href": "/conversations/{messages.conversation}",
"type": "conversations"
}
},
"meta": {
"messages": {
"page": 1,
"page_size": 14,
"count": 14,
"include": [

 ],
"page_count": 1,
"previous_page": null,
"next_page": null,
"first_href": "/messages?page_size=14\u0026conversation_id=2387",
"previous_href": null,
"next_href": null,
"last_href": "/messages?page_size=14\u0026conversation_id=2387",
"current_sort": "",
"default_sort": null,
"sortable_attributes": [
"conversation_id",
"created_at"
]
}
}
}

[eatyourgreens]

Bumping this because it came up again on Talk today. https://www.zooniverse.org/talk/17/311244?comment=754212&page=2