Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38315542-20190619030431/@comment-16461120-20190621060514

Oh, I'm not offended, and apologize if my asking for potential theories seemed argumentative, I'm genuinely open to any suggestions on where I might be able to help resolve this.

I do indeed mean view when I refer to the category's format. I'm talking about the way the population of articles appears to the user, that is to say the arrangement or layout, and there's currently three different options (classic, exhibition, and dynamic) available via the site's software.

Now, I don't use dynamic myself, but I believe that's what the image in the OP is using ('cause without knowing which character that list is from, it's the closest I can get mine to look while tinkering with the settings); however, I should note that for me dynamic has always been utterly without order and the table of contents never worked, which is the main reason why I changed my settings to avoid it when it was introduced years ago.

That being said I'm aware that for some users the dynamic setting apparently listed the populating articles in the order in which they were created on the Database for a time, which does sound handy, it's just not something I've ever had the pleasure of seeing whenever I did tinker with a category's settings.

Anyway, having talked about this for a few days with other AdMods, we suspect it's potentially related to Fandom's current plan to upgrade to a newer version of MediaWiki software. I know that doesn't really help, but it's where we're at and support has unfortunately been really slow getting back to us on other issues of late, I'm talking not a word in six weeks level slow.