Tried searching but couldn’t find anything. Can the order be changed to newest first within a topic?
Some forums have huge topics with hundreds of pages of answers and are IMO better read with newest-first order, where you don’t really care about the old ones.
If a topic has hundreds of pages of answers and it does not matter to the reader what was said in the beginning, it does not represent quality content. In quality discussions every contribution counts.
Discourse already provides the function of beginning the reading experience where you ended it.
Why would it not be necessary to read all these posts in-between? What makes latest posts more valuable?
Edit: If you don’t care about the old posts, you would not keep scrolling to read them. Do you only want to see the latest updates like, for example, I would want to read in a “news” feed aimed at entertaining me?
AFAIK this would require a plug-in or modification to the core codebase to implement. As a work-around, each topic has the green “progress bar” in the lower-right. You can always click the down arrow to be taken to the last post in the topic.
Also, in case you didn’t catch it from @pyro240’s response:
In other words, Discourse keeps track of your reading position. For example, if a topic has 40 posts and you read 30 of them, it remembers that. If the topic gets 40 more posts while you’re away, it will start you at #30 so you can pick up where you left off. I know that’s not a direct response to your query, but it’s useful and cool.
@codinghorror That’s actually really cool. It loads last x posts and then I can scroll back up. Never seen this before. I think that fits my use case pretty well.
Still, it would be awesome if I could tick a checkbox in the topic settings menu and allow it to show entries in reverse order. It would be awesome for twitter-like topics where there is no logic flow between posts and it is preferred to show newest entries first.
Its a very complicated change, probably a week of work to wire it up properly without having stuff like collapsed streams, deferred loading and so on working.
That can be useful for embedding a live discussion, for events like a webinar. In those cases you would want the last comments on the top, or the autoscroll of some kind.
공지 채널 역할을 하는 토픽들이 있습니다. 예를 들어 "Gitlab의 새로운 기능"은 하나의 토픽이며, 관련 업데이트가 있을 때마다 누군가 해당 특정 토픽에 답글을 남깁니다. 현재는 가장 오래된 공지가 새 독자가 가장 먼저 보는 내용입니다. 사용자가 실제로 원하는 것은 가장 최근의 공지입니다. 특정 토픽에 대해 순서를 반전시키는 관리자/모더레이터 설정이 있다면, 새로운 공지가 상단에 표시될 것입니다.
2. Discourse 캘린더
제가 아는 한, Discourse 캘린더는 날짜를 포함한 새 답글을 추가하여 캘린더에 새 항목을 등록하는 방식으로 작동합니다.
이로 인해 가장 최근의 캘린더 항목이 가장 멀리 떨어진 답글이 됩니다. 제 개인 캘린더의 경우, 최신 항목이 약 200개 답글 아래에 위치해 있습니다. 타임라인을 사용할 수는 있지만, 모든 항목이 맨 아래에 있는 대신 최신 항목이 상단에 있는 것이 훨씬 나을 것입니다.
이것은 좋은 대안이 될 수 있겠지만, 캘린더의 경우에도 역순 정렬이 여전히 유리하다고 생각합니다. 이렇게 하면 사용자가 캘린더를 확인한 후, 항목을 한두 개만 아래로 스크롤하면 가장 최근 이벤트 항목을 볼 수 있습니다. 현재는 가장 최근 이벤트를 보려면 200개 항목을 건너뛰어야 합니다.