Do You Prefer To Read The Latest Comments First Or Last?

Everton | Mar 10, 2008 | View Comments


As part of his work to speedup my site and server, my techie Chris inadvertently changed the way my site displays comments.  Now rather than displaying the oldest comment first the site is showing the newest comment first.

I was about to change the configuration file so that the oldest comment was displayed first, but I thought I’d ask first to see what the readers prefer.  Personally I prefer to read the oldest comment first and then follow the timeline of the discussion before I add my two pennies worth.  But some people prefer to read the latest comment first, which is handy if you’ve already read the old comments and are maybe leaving your second or third comment.

Which do you prefer?


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

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  • I agree, I like the older comments first followed by the newer.
  • I usually prefer oldest to newest so I can follow the conversation in order. But if there is a large amount of comments, I tend to skip to the newest ones.
  • @Dave

    The posts are coming soon. Chris is just writing up his notes while we wait for the theme updates to finish, then he's going to start work on the theme. We've decided to rebuild the theme as the code is such a mess, rather than tweak it - a preview can be seen here. It's early days so far, but it's going to look a lot better
  • Latest coment does make sense...
  • Oldest to newest is certainly my preference ... but actually you hit upon something here ... since, by fortuitous circmstance Chris found a way to show the comments in either order, why not a button that lets each reader select the order s/he wants?

    BTW, it's time for an updates on Chris' optimisation efforts ... I've been waiitng to fin dout more about those great server load reduction results you 'teased' on ;-).

    Thanks, Everton.
  • I read the first and the last one. :D
  • I rarely look at when a comment is posted- just which ever shows up on my viewscreen first.

    If there are over 15 comments....I skip em altogether
  • my vote is for recent posts on top...
  • I agree with "Sevierville Real Estate". I would prefer to see the oldest to the newest. It's confusing when you catch the end of a conversation. Look into the "Threaded Comments" WP plugin. That offers a good way for authors and readers respond to each other without muddling up the page.
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