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Suggestion; Keep oldest comments on top after a reply

The default view is oldest to newest, which is intuitive and rational.

After you reply, the view changes from oldest to newest, which is less intuitive and rational.

I'm assuming this was done so the user could see that their post was accepted.

Is it possible to keep the comments in chronological order, but have the page scroll down to your new comment after you hit submit?

by johns hopkins…
asked 3 years ago

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flipping the order sucks.

Suggestion: Preserve the order, but if the newest post is hidden, show the first X posts in the sort order, an Ajax-y button for more posts, and then N-3 through N where N is the submitted post.

fgarriel
3 years ago

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@fgarriel: I'm not sure if there are coding considerations but that suggestion sounds like a good one to me. I've not had such a confirmed feeling it wasn't going to play out ok with the resort, but I could see not bothering with the learning curve.

snapster
3 years ago

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The cheap solution is just to sort newest first from the jump.

fgarriel
3 years ago

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@fgarriel: That's what I'm suggesting. It works well on the other woot sites.

johns hopkins…
3 years ago

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Testing some new code. Nothing to see here.

shawnmiller
3 years ago

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Couple of changes we made.

1) We're going to preserve the sorting order when you post a new comment
2) We added a URL fragment to the redirect so your browser will scroll to the newly added comment, but...

We haven't worked out the code yet to make sure your newly added comment will be loaded. If there are more than 20 comments and your sort is oldest you won't see your newly added comment until you scroll down and click the more button.

Thanks for the feedback. We're working on it. Hang in there.

shawnmiller
3 years ago

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@shawnmiller: thanks for the quick work and update shawn

snapster
3 years ago

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