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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael Nelson wrote on 01/10/10 09:49:
>...
> There are some situations where we are using (or wanting to use)
> comments in Launchpad for a log of activity (like an activity stream),
> or a log of changes. In these situations Henning, Curtis and I think
> that ordering from newest to oldest would be more helpful to see.
>...
> http://people.canonical.com/~michaeln/tmp/649559-blacklisting-with-comments.ogv
>...
> 2) How could they be visually distinctive from the normal comments (or
> more generally, how can we ensure the two different orderings don't
> confuse people)? Or should we restrict newest-oldest ordering to
> specific functionality (ie. don't use it for anything that is like a
> comment, but it's ok for an activity stream for a person/pillar.
>...

Instead of newest-to-oldest ordering, perhaps collapse by default all
comments except the most recent. For example:

    Foo Bar wrote 4 minutes ago:
    This looks sus... can you look into it Henry?

    + Add comment

becomes

    |> 1 previous comment

    Foo Bar wrote just now:
    I'm blacklisting this because of foo and bar.

    + Add comment

and then becomes

    |> 2 previous comments

    Foo Bar wrote just now:
    Oh, I forgot something.

    + Add comment

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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