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 .
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