The user-facing chapter list ordered by (number ASC, created_at ASC),
which broke the source site's order in two ways: non-numeric entries
("notice. : Officials") parsed to number=0 and clustered at the top,
even though the site placed them mid-list, and variants sharing a
number ("Ch.14 : PH" / "Ch.14 : Official") were torn apart by the
created_at tiebreak.
Capture each chapter's position in the source DOM as `source_index`
(0 = first = newest on this site) on every crawler sync, including the
UPDATE branch so a new chapter prepended on the source shifts every
existing row down by one on the next tick. The list query reverses
this with `ORDER BY source_index DESC NULLS LAST, number ASC,
created_at ASC` so the oldest chapter appears first, variants stay
adjacent in the order the site shows them, and non-numeric entries
land where the site placed them. User-uploaded chapters and pre-
migration rows keep their NULL source_index and fall through to the
prior number/created_at tiebreak via NULLS LAST.
The reader's client-side `[...chapters].sort((a,b) => a.number - b.number)`
is dropped; prev/next now walks the server-ordered array positionally
so it traverses variants and non-numeric entries in display order.
Existing data populates on the next cron tick or via admin force-resync.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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