On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 15:27:27 UTC, tn wrote:
On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 13:13:38 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
Generally, in a threaded discussion, replies always have to
appear below their parents. Even though it's possible to sort
siblings in the reverse order, it would be rather
inconsistent. The same goes with entire threads - the last
post in a group will appear as the *bottom-most* child of its
parent, inside the *topmost* thread.
In that case also paging should follow the same rule. That is,
last thread should be at the bottom of the _last_ page. (And of
course the last page should be viewed by default.) Now it is at
the bottom of the first page which is not exactly very
intuitive.
I think that would be even more confusing.
For one, the default page would be the last page - makes sense
from your perspective, but certainly unusual in the web
discussion board context. For two, the first page in one view
would be the last page in another view, and page numbers no
longer refer to the same set of threads (at the same point in
time). E.g.: "Where was that thread you mentioned?" - "Oh, on the
second or third page or so."
