On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 13:13:38 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 12:27:44 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
you receive an A+ from me!
BTW, is there any way to sort the threaded view so that the
newest messages appear on top? Simply because, in a web page,
the top is what shows up first.
Thanks :) The reason why I chose to sort by older posts first
is a bit convoluted:
Generally, in a threaded discussion, replies always have to
appear below their parents. Even though it's possible to sort
siblings in the reverse order, it would be rather inconsistent.
The same goes with entire threads - the last post in a group
will appear as the *bottom-most* child of its parent, inside
the *topmost* thread.
In that case also paging should follow the same rule. That is,
last thread should be at the bottom of the _last_ page. (And of
course the last page should be viewed by default.) Now it is at
the bottom of the first page which is not exactly very intuitive.
