Steps to reproduce the issue:
Go onto https://www.minecraft.net/en-us
Click News at the top of the page
Click the image labeled Newest News
Expected Results:
I expect to see the latest articles when I scroll past the pinned ones.
Actual Results:
I am met with the top article of “MCC x Minecraft: The Ender Cup is almost here“ marked as being from 11 months ago. I did check to make sure that the Sort By button was marked as most recent, so that isn’t the issue.
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This issue is definitely some form of regression on the backend. I remember checking and seeing there being like 113 pages of news articles. However, now there are only 94 pages of articles.
Also, it’s not an issue with the timestamps, as those timestamps match up with the dates on the articles.
If you request the api with the parameters
pageSize=24&sortType=Recent&newsOnly=true&page=[page number]and iterate through the pages, then the earliest news article (result which has "type": "News") that it returns is from 2025-03-24T15:17:49Z and is this article: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/ray-tracing .
There is a result from 2025-04-16T11:33:38Z, however it is not actually an article rather just a link to https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/catalog
This same issue also appears when using the dev api (https://net-secondary.dev-325496ed.web.minecraft-services.net) as well as the staging api (https://net-secondary.stage-732c232f.web.minecraft-services.net).
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Confirming that the API returns the JSON result incorrectly ordered, thus this is not a problem with the UI. Requesting from the API with the following (default) parameters:
Returns articles with epoch timestamps 1721156915 (Tuesday, 16 July 2024 19:08:35), 1721133145 (Tuesday, 16 July 2024 12:32:25), 1721077945 (Monday, 15 July 2024 21:12:25) and so on.