diff --git a/src/applications/base/controller/PhabricatorController.php b/src/applications/base/controller/PhabricatorController.php
--- a/src/applications/base/controller/PhabricatorController.php
+++ b/src/applications/base/controller/PhabricatorController.php
@@ -559,7 +559,6 @@
       ->setViewer($viewer)
       ->withObjectPHIDs(array($object->getPHID()))
       ->needComments(true)
-      ->setReversePaging(false)
       ->executeWithCursorPager($pager);
     $xactions = array_reverse($xactions);
 
diff --git a/src/applications/config/controller/PhabricatorConfigHistoryController.php b/src/applications/config/controller/PhabricatorConfigHistoryController.php
--- a/src/applications/config/controller/PhabricatorConfigHistoryController.php
+++ b/src/applications/config/controller/PhabricatorConfigHistoryController.php
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 final class PhabricatorConfigHistoryController
   extends PhabricatorConfigController {
 
-
   public function processRequest() {
     $request = $this->getRequest();
     $user = $request->getUser();
@@ -11,7 +10,6 @@
     $xactions = id(new PhabricatorConfigTransactionQuery())
       ->setViewer($user)
       ->needComments(true)
-      ->setReversePaging(false)
       ->execute();
 
     $object = new PhabricatorConfigEntry();
diff --git a/src/applications/conpherence/query/ConpherenceTransactionQuery.php b/src/applications/conpherence/query/ConpherenceTransactionQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/conpherence/query/ConpherenceTransactionQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/conpherence/query/ConpherenceTransactionQuery.php
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
     return new ConpherenceTransaction();
   }
 
-  protected function getReversePaging() {
-    return false;
+  protected function getDefaultOrderVector() {
+    // TODO: Can we get rid of this?
+    return array('-id');
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/applications/differential/query/DifferentialHunkQuery.php b/src/applications/differential/query/DifferentialHunkQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/differential/query/DifferentialHunkQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/differential/query/DifferentialHunkQuery.php
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@
     return 'PhabricatorDifferentialApplication';
   }
 
-  protected function getReversePaging() {
-    return true;
+  protected function getDefaultOrderVector() {
+    // TODO: Do we need this?
+    return array('-id');
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderAnswerQuery.php b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderAnswerQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderAnswerQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderAnswerQuery.php
@@ -118,10 +118,6 @@
     return $answers;
   }
 
-  protected function getReversePaging() {
-    return true;
-  }
-
   public function getQueryApplicationClass() {
     return 'PhabricatorPonderApplication';
   }
diff --git a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/ponder/query/PonderQuestionQuery.php
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
     if ($this->needAnswers) {
       $aquery = id(new PonderAnswerQuery())
         ->setViewer($this->getViewer())
+        ->setOrderVector(array('-id'))
         ->withQuestionIDs(mpull($questions, 'getID'));
 
       if ($this->needViewerVotes) {
diff --git a/src/applications/repository/query/PhabricatorRepositoryQuery.php b/src/applications/repository/query/PhabricatorRepositoryQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/repository/query/PhabricatorRepositoryQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/repository/query/PhabricatorRepositoryQuery.php
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
     return $repositories;
   }
 
-  public function getPrimaryTableAlias() {
+  protected function getPrimaryTableAlias() {
     return 'r';
   }
 
diff --git a/src/applications/transactions/query/PhabricatorApplicationTransactionQuery.php b/src/applications/transactions/query/PhabricatorApplicationTransactionQuery.php
--- a/src/applications/transactions/query/PhabricatorApplicationTransactionQuery.php
+++ b/src/applications/transactions/query/PhabricatorApplicationTransactionQuery.php
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
   private $objectPHIDs;
   private $authorPHIDs;
   private $transactionTypes;
-  private $reversePaging = true;
 
   private $needComments = true;
   private $needHandles  = true;
@@ -18,15 +17,6 @@
     return array();
   }
 
-  public function setReversePaging($bool) {
-    $this->reversePaging = $bool;
-    return $this;
-  }
-
-  protected function getReversePaging() {
-    return $this->reversePaging;
-  }
-
   public function withPHIDs(array $phids) {
     $this->phids = $phids;
     return $this;
diff --git a/src/infrastructure/query/policy/PhabricatorCursorPagedPolicyAwareQuery.php b/src/infrastructure/query/policy/PhabricatorCursorPagedPolicyAwareQuery.php
--- a/src/infrastructure/query/policy/PhabricatorCursorPagedPolicyAwareQuery.php
+++ b/src/infrastructure/query/policy/PhabricatorCursorPagedPolicyAwareQuery.php
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
   private $internalPaging;
   private $orderVector;
 
-  protected function getPagingColumn() {
-    return 'id';
-  }
-
   protected function getPagingValue($result) {
     if (!is_object($result)) {
       // This interface can't be typehinted and PHP gets really angry if we
@@ -31,10 +27,6 @@
     return $result->getID();
   }
 
-  protected function getReversePaging() {
-    return false;
-  }
-
   protected function nextPage(array $page) {
     // See getPagingViewer() for a description of this flag.
     $this->internalPaging = true;
@@ -171,28 +163,6 @@
 
   protected function buildPagingClause(AphrontDatabaseConnection $conn) {
     $orderable = $this->getOrderableColumns();
-
-    // TODO: Remove this once subqueries modernize.
-    if (!$orderable) {
-      if ($this->beforeID) {
-        return qsprintf(
-          $conn,
-          '%Q %Q %s',
-          $this->getPagingColumn(),
-          $this->getReversePaging() ? '<' : '>',
-          $this->beforeID);
-      } else if ($this->afterID) {
-        return qsprintf(
-          $conn,
-          '%Q %Q %s',
-          $this->getPagingColumn(),
-          $this->getReversePaging() ? '>' : '<',
-          $this->afterID);
-      } else {
-        return null;
-      }
-    }
-
     $vector = $this->getOrderVector();
 
     if ($this->beforeID !== null) {
@@ -543,13 +513,6 @@
    * @task order
    */
   public function getOrderableColumns() {
-    // TODO: Remove this once all subclasses move off the old stuff.
-    if ($this->getPagingColumn() !== 'id') {
-      // This class has bad old custom logic around paging, so return nothing
-      // here. This deactivates the new order code.
-      return array();
-    }
-
     $columns = array(
       'id' => array(
         'table' => $this->getPrimaryTableAlias(),
@@ -593,26 +556,6 @@
    */
   final protected function buildOrderClause(AphrontDatabaseConnection $conn) {
     $orderable = $this->getOrderableColumns();
-
-    // TODO: Remove this once all subclasses move off the old stuff. We'll
-    // only enter this block for code using older ordering mechanisms. New
-    // code should expose an orderable column list.
-    if (!$orderable) {
-      if ($this->beforeID) {
-        return qsprintf(
-          $conn,
-          'ORDER BY %Q %Q',
-          $this->getPagingColumn(),
-          $this->getReversePaging() ? 'DESC' : 'ASC');
-      } else {
-        return qsprintf(
-          $conn,
-          'ORDER BY %Q %Q',
-          $this->getPagingColumn(),
-          $this->getReversePaging() ? 'ASC' : 'DESC');
-      }
-    }
-
     $vector = $this->getOrderVector();
 
     $parts = array();
@@ -636,10 +579,6 @@
     array $parts) {
 
     $is_query_reversed = false;
-    if ($this->getReversePaging()) {
-      $is_query_reversed = !$is_query_reversed;
-    }
-
     if ($this->getBeforeID()) {
       $is_query_reversed = !$is_query_reversed;
     }