Setting for the default sorting of groups -> Alphabetical

We have regions of the world sorted alphabetically as categories. But it would help a lot to be able to set the default sort of the groups (countries) within each region. And, in some places such as the USA, we have 50 states to deal with.

So I hope that there can be an option to set a default sort of the EasySocial groups alphabetically.

With over 200+ groups (mostly countries and states), it is very hard for people to check out what groups are of interest if they are not sorted. If people want to check out any location (group), they don't care when it was created. They just want to find it easily.

Thanks. -- Rik

PS: For several years we have edited the following 2 files:

/components/com_easysocial/views/groups/view.html.php
/components/com_easysocial/controllers/groups.php

... but it looks like those files have changed quite a bit recently