What's your preferred comment display order - oldest to newest or newest to oldest?

[jbarron]

We currently have replies to posts sorted oldest to newest by default. We're having a conversation as a team about if that's the best choice or if we should switch the default to newest to oldest.

What do you all prefer?

PS: You can change your preference for the sorting in your settings, so no matter what the default is, you can set it to whatever you want for yourself.

[realJSOP]

Default should be oldest to latest AND...

Collapse all older posts since the last one read into a single expandable item so that you have less to scroll through to get to the oldest new post. This could also be a configurable setting.

[Richard Andrew x64]

@jbarron , one thing that was great about the original code project forums was that the posts were displayed with the newest on top, followed by the older ones. Plus, the other thing that made it great was that the chronological order of the posts was preserved no matter which post received the latest reply. IOW Replying to an old post did not bring that post to the top, the post stayed where it belongs in the history.