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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 10:49 +0200, Michael Nelson wrote:
>> 1) Do other people also share the view that users will benefit from
>> newest-oldest comments/activity logs in some situations? If so, what
>> are the other situations? If not, why not?
>
> I think karma, bug and question activity logs would should be in reverse
> order. In the feature you were working with the comments were indirectly
> connected to the actions the user can take with blacklisting. I think
> the comment and the action have to be connected.
>
> For comments that form a conversation, I think Launchpad bugs and
> reviews already do the right thing.
>

I agree with Curtis here.  If the comment and the activity are
coupled, the order should be oldest to newest, since the appearance of
narrative or dialog cannot be avoided.

Twitter and Facebook can get away with newest to oldest because their
entire site is built around real time communication.  I don't think we
can pull off a shift to this unless we do a more serious UI refresh,
pusing toward this kind of real time activity on Launchpad.

Cheers,
deryck

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