Order comments by date, ascending

[Aaron Williamson]

On the media "home" page, comments on photos are currently sorted
in descending order by date (i.e. reverse-chronological order, like
a blog). The standard order is ascending order by date.

This requires a change to media\_home() in
mediagoblin/user\_pages/views.py

[Elrond]

Me three! ;-)

I think, it's easier to read, because usually comments have
answers. You don't want to read the answer before the question, do
you?

[Will Kahn-Greene]

We release 0.0.4, so I'm bumping this to 0.0.5.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I don't really agree with this ticket. This means that new comments
will be buried, possibly pages deep, and probably never will be
seen! This seems to disincentivize posting new comments.

[Caleb Davis]

Christopher Webber wrote:

    I don't really agree with this ticket. This means that new comments
    will be buried, possibly pages deep, and probably never will be
    seen! This seems to disincentivize posting new comments.


+1

If I'm reading a support forum (lots of Q&A), then I expect
comments to come in chronological order. Commenting on pictures
tends to be less chronologically linear. It's more like,


-  love it!
-  how'd you do that?
   
   -  I used the Gimp

-  this reminds me of the time when ...
   
   -  totally, here's a link to my time when ...

-  rant rant rant rant
   
   -  this should be at the top


reddit's 'best', 'new', and other sorting orders may inform this
decision also.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I'd **love** to have reddit-style "best" & rated tree style
comments. However that seems like a distant future thing... so for
now...

[Jef van Schendel]

Re: threading and such.

Personally I think we should keep complexity here to a minimum.
Caleb's example seem realistic, and one level of indentation seems
to work well (it lets the poster respond to individual comments).
But I think we should not add much more than that, since we're not
making a discussion site but an image sharing site after all.

Just saying I don't think we should go all-out on this. Let's keep
it nice and simple, there's a lot of value in that too. :)

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Okay, so we aren't doing threading. I guess people seem to be in
favor of doing things as this ticket suggests.

[Inconexo ø]

Fixed.

repo:
git://gitorious.org/~inconexo/mediagoblin/inconexos-mediagoblin.git
branch: 441\_comment\_order

Note: I added an optional parameter in MediaEntry::get\_comments
function to specify order parameter. It will allow in the future,
if we want, to let the user order the comments as he prefers. Hope
that's ok.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Oh great! Merged, and took advantage of your option. Users can now
set what they prefer. Comments are ascending by default, but if
you'd prefer descending, just change in mediagoblin\_local.ini:

::

    [mediagoblin]
    # ...
    comments_ascending = false

Thanks! :D

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/441 .
Relations:
#179: duplicated