Lightroom public galleries sorting does not reflect actual sorting

I just ran into this as well.

It's so very simple, yet completely ruins the experience of viewing an album for those I share it with. The photos appear in a seemingly random order despite being from the same shoot.

There doesn't seem to be a way to fix the sort order in the shared lightroom.adobe.com gallery; none at all. No matter what option I choose in either Lightroom Classic, or in the web gallery while signed in, the public share stays the same random order.

This is a straight-up bug, and it is not complicated. On several forum posts about it I see people trying to explain it away with technicalities, but I assure you it's not working correctly. It might only be with collections sync'd from Lightroom Classic -- that is my use case.

Expected behavior: the publically viewable shared link should display the collection in the exact same order as chosen in Lightroom Classic, or in the Web version of the collection while signed in. For example, if I view the collection on lightroom.adobe.com while signed in or as an Editor, and choose a sort, then that sort should also be applied for the publically viewable shared album.

Very very simple. No need to overcomplicate. But it does need to be fixed.

I have the same problem and no solution at all. Hope lightroom solves this soon: The online gallery does not reflect the initial sorting from the app.

The sorting order is not synced to the Cloud.

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