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Currently the newest comments are shown at the top. This is quite jarring because it's different from how almost all other social networks or (threaded) conversations on the web are shown.
An argument that was made for why this was the case was that this ensures people don't have to scroll to see the newest comments. I would like to make the following two counter arguments to this for moving to the conventional "oldest at the top".
1. If users are coming to the site for the new comments, they're probably navigating there through a notification, in which case they won't have to scroll by using an anchor.
2. If I'm browsing and encountering the content for the first time, the only way for me to figure out what the conversation is about and to join in is to realise the order is 'reversed' and scroll to the bottom.
Proposed resolution
Sort comments in posts by date in ascending order (oldest at the top).
Comments
Comment #2
xinyuma commentedThis has to do with where the comment field is, it should always be next to the latest comment, because what you comment will be the latest. You can argue whether the comment field should be next to the post itself of end of the block/card.
For the consistency, I do suggest to switch the order including the comment field. Guess this only happens in activity stream at the moment.
Comment #3
jaapjan commentedAgree that we should work on this. Adding latest version number here.
Comment #6
jaapjan commentedWill be released in 6.x
Comment #7
albertoalaejos commented