On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
No, it doesn't. An email thread is a conversation. You want to read what someone said and then what the reply is. On blogs and news sites, the articles are not related to one another in that way, and when you go to the site you generally want to see the newest things first.
A weblog is a log. Of course, blogs can be used for pretty much anything, but most fundamentally it is like a diary. If I'm reading, say, the log of the Lewis & Clark expedition, I don't want to read the newest items first; I want to read it in order. Likewise if I'm reading someone's journal I want to read it in order. You mention also mention news. If I subscribe to a newsletter and I've fallen behind in reading it, when I sit down to catch up, I want to read the issues in order, not newest first.
On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
Because people want to log on and see the new posts. Having to jump down to the bottom doesn't seem to be a good way to do it.
Surely it wouldn't be so difficult for the software to have a feature so that after each item there's a little bookmark link. When you get to the bottom of the page you click it to "mark your place", and then next time you visit you go back to where you left off, no matter how much has been added below.
I can make WordPress list things backwards. I'm guessing that most software you administer yourself allows it, although probably not canned things like Blogger.
I use Radio. It's pretty powerful, so I assume there's a way to do it. I dug around a bit looking for a piece of code I could use to arrange first-to-last, but I couldn't find anything.
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