In case you didn't already know, to change the feed, from the main menu on the left, tap on the three dots for Frontpage to change it to the default. Connect calls your Subscribed feed Frontpage.

Yeah, a few thing changed to possibly chalk it up to mis-taps or something; does seem like something caused it.

In Settings, if you go into Post Customization, the Default sort for Posts, at the top, is for your feed. A bit further down, the Sticky sort per community setting can also be set for specific communities and overrides the upper setting. That second setting does come up if you search "sort" but the first doesn't. Some of the settings seem to be unlabelled and does not come up in search.

Regarding the reset of your settings, that does seem odd. If other people have experienced this as well, hopefully they'll chime in with their experience. I've had this happen way back but haven't noticed this recently.

v1.428 was released yesterday and the changelog mentioned changing it so blocks take affect immediately and not having the cache showing blocked stuff until the app refreshes. I think it's a beta build so you will need to join the beta, which can be done from the Connect app page on the Play Store.

Appreciate the email on this. I don't think I got an email from Piefed.social either. Heck I don't remember getting any from Lemmy.ca for Lemmy downtime. But perhaps they haven't ran into a similar situation.

I'm on 423. Bug fixes can be hit or miss sometimes. A fix may address some but not the entirety of a problem. The changelog did cautiously mention fixing some causes of this issue. But surely the dev will come back and resolve it some day.

Actually I think I ran into it just now and the text field became empty. However, because I have save draft enabled, I just backed out and went to reply again and what I typed up was restored. I'll have to pay attention to what happened just before that may be triggering this.

I haven't done many Piefed searches so that mag be why I haven't noticed it.

The sorting issue I do see from time to time. It seems like a caching issue and refreshing the feed will fix it. It's not limited to the Connect community and I don't think it's just New either.

Until the issue is resolved, an alternative is to post using your browser. Sometimes I do that for certain Piefed functionality that haven't been implemented yet.