Jshowerthoughts·ShowerthoughtsbyJimbabwe There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-topView original on lemmy.world54Comments7Reply
sslazer2au replylemmy.world4Hide 4 replies I don't understand. Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.19Reply
sslazer2au replylemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesOthers like email will put the most recent message at the top so you need to scroll to the bottom. Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom. I don't understand. 26Reply
eessell replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyIf God had intended us to communicate with Brevity, he would never have generated the outrageous monstrosity that is the verbose English language.8Reply
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.socialThe only site that I ever seen not work top-to-bottom without also having a sorting function to reverse the order is Twitter. Reading a chain from Twitter hurts.6Reply
mmoobythegoldensock infosec.pubDepends on the function. Forum comment chains should always be top to bottom within the same chain. But for live chat, both top to bottom and bottom to top are acceptable.2Reply
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I don't understand.
Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.
Others like email will put the most recent message at the top so you need to scroll to the bottom.
If God had intended us to communicate with Brevity, he would never have generated the outrageous monstrosity that is the verbose English language.
If God were real they'd be big mad
The only site that I ever seen not work top-to-bottom without also having a sorting function to reverse the order is Twitter. Reading a chain from Twitter hurts.
Depends on the function.
Forum comment chains should always be top to bottom within the same chain. But for live chat, both top to bottom and bottom to top are acceptable.