Search order is from oldest to newest

To my surprise, when using the built-in search functionality on Hyvor Talk, it orders its results from oldest to newest. Is there a way to change this in the settings?
If there currently isn’t a way way to change it:

1 - It would be a nice to have as a setting in the settings panel, but more importantly:
2 - I think newest to oldest SHOULD be the standard. From a user perspective searching for a new development or update makes the most sense. Could you consider making newest to oldest the default?

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Another way would to make it by default equal to the default-sort setting that effects the sort of the comments, which has Top rated / Newest / Oldest

Anyone with a solution for this?
I’m seeing in the background the API is requested like this:

https://talk.hyvor.com/api/embed/v3/14681/page/145568924/comments/search?query=hart&offset=0

But adding &sort=[parameter] like the API docs say doesn’t yield different results.
Also, the API docs are a bit vague on parameters. It lists sort values, but not difference in ASC and DESC for example.