Hey, Jamie. I've got a bug for you to take a look at WRT the sorting. I've got two test cases for you:
1. If I go to an out of the box demo app and select a facet, like language --> Tibetan, and then sort by title, I get a 500 error. (Sorting does work if you have a search entered, just not if you only have a facet selected)
2. If I go to an out of the box demo app and search for history (five results), then limit to language:Tibetan (two results), then sort by title, I'm back to having five results. It lost my facet selection.
Something like this:
https://jira.lib.virginia.edu/secure/attachment/10162/blacklight_search1a.png
Could you take a look?
Thanks!