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.
There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top
Submitted 2 months ago by Jimbabwe@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 months ago
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.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I don’t understand.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Others like email will put the most recent message at the top so you need to scroll to the bottom.