JimbabweThere should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top
maniacalmanicmaniaI don’t understand.
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.
Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.
I don’t understand.
Microsoft Outlook started this stupid shit.
Before then, emails (and Usenet posts) were always appended to the bottom, and good netiquette required one to intentionally quote the specific germane lines from the previous message and respond to them inline, point-by-point, for brevity, conciseness, and context, just as God intended.
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
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.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 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.