[IxDA Discuss] Comment order patterns

[Rob Adams-Kane]

When there's a list, should it not be sortable?  I'd guess that was a basic design pattern.

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I am currently looking at 2 web-based bug tracking applications. On their bug view pages, both of them have a block of meta-data information (summary, severity, assignee etc.) at the top portion. Below this portion, they both list the comments/updates which were entered by various users.

Here's the catch: one of them lists the comments in chronological order, the other one in reverse chronological order. I personally think chronological listing makes the most sense as:
1. I know exactly where to scroll my browser window to find the latest comment (the very end).
2. If I am new to a specific bug report, I can easily read the progress from top to bottom.
I looked briefly at two other commonly used bug trackers and they seem to be using chronological order as well.

Does anyone have a good argument for one approach or the other?

Thanks,
Beril
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