I agree, the search results should default to sort by new. Regardless of what your default user setting is. This is how it works on https://old.lemmy.world
nnrx
This kinda looks like an issue between lemmy and kbin. The issue is present on the lemmy ui as well. The ?format=jpg&thumbnail=96
parameter being there doesn't have an effect here. The issue is the thumbnail_url is reported wrong. You can see that here. The thumbnail_url should be: https://kbin.social/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/60/a4/60a45b8ff88b1b2e3a0f77b701feb323c5bbfb7ceeb75154ea7df5d6eea15ef8.jpg
We could try and use some regex to lookout for kbin images and rewrite the thumbnail_url, but it should probably just be fixed upstream.
Found this github issue which might be related: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3775
Looks right here https://old.lemmy.world/u/e0qdk@reddthat.com
looks like the default sort for the user history api changed in whatever version of lemmy reddthat is running. Fix in the latest mlmym release 0.0.44 accounts for that now!
Do you have an example you can link to?