Just like I miss the Stack Overflow "show me all of the most recently changed questions" homepage, my "oldest first" sort order for answers also went away recently (and not just on Stack Overflow, but all Stack Exchanges).  Why are such useful things just going away? Sure, they might not be optimal (and the currently decided optimal view should be the default for non-logged in users and new accounts), but it's getting old having my preferences being yanked away suddenly and then having to get used to something new.
Please bring back the oldest sort order for answers, I think we can deal with four different types of sort order.  It's helpful if you don't want to have to tool-tip every post to see which got posted first, so that you can upvote the oldest answer when answers duplicate each other.  Edit:  Also, trying to read newest backwards doesn't work well for questions with multiple pages of answers.
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