Sort topic posts in a topic to appear newest to oldest

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Hello @gassim

There are several topics about the same thing:

Prospective Feature: Topic Posts Reverse Chronological Order

I’m on hosted discourse, and Discourse Staff sent me here upon my describing the use-case for this (below). From Discourse Staff That’s a really interesting idea and I’m surprised that it hasn’t show up on meta.discourse.org (that I can find anyway). That being said, I don’t imagine this would ever make it into the core functionality of the app, but maybe somebody would be willing to make a plugin for it. If it’s something you are super interested in I would suggest creating a topic on meta f…

Can new messages appear at the top instead of the bottom?

Hi all, I’m converting an online community to new forum software. 15 years of posts (55,000 posts). Old board is IP Board. All posts are just in one long stream. We have no need for individual topics. Can Discourse… Show new messages at the top instead of appearing at the bottom. Hold users last view place? So, when a user visits discourse, can their last “unread” place be held so it shows them where they last read. And then the users scroll up to read new messages? I do like the inline re…

Can the order of the comment dates on a post be flipped?

I notice that the comments on posts are listed oldest to newest. That causes the user to have to scroll down (or drag the comment bar) down to the bottom. Is there a setting that will post the most recent comment at the top? Bonus question: Anyone know the reasoning having the most recent comment at the bottom?

To sum it up, it’s impossible without a custom plugin, and I don’t think such one exists.

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