Small usability suggestion for the "MetaFilter comments by:" page November 21, 2005 10:43 AM   Subscribe

Small usability suggestion for the "MetaFilter comments by:" page (example).

When a user has made more than one comment in a thread, there are multiple "jump to the comment in this thread" links you can use to see them all. The weird thing is that they are storted top-to-bottom newest-to-oldest. Can you reverese sort these links, so that clicking the first link takes you to the first comment, and clicking the last link takes you to the last comment? This seems that it would more closely match the structure of the thread it's linking to.
posted by scarabic to Feature Requests at 10:43 AM (16 comments total)

previously noted here
posted by scarabic at 10:43 AM on November 21, 2005


Seconded (I know it's minor, but it trips me up every time).
posted by pardonyou? at 10:47 AM on November 21, 2005


Thirded.
posted by grateful at 10:49 AM on November 21, 2005


I noticed this too going back to a thread, in fact it took me a while to figure out that there wasn't something fishy going on. It would be neater if the "Jump to this comment..." link instead displayed a time stamp.
posted by geoff. at 10:50 AM on November 21, 2005


It would be neater if the "Jump to this comment..." link instead displayed a time stamp.
Or even the first few words of the comment. As the text of the link, perhaps.
posted by Wolfdog at 10:51 AM on November 21, 2005


yeah, it's backwards, and I'll change it back to how it used to be soon.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:55 AM on November 21, 2005


Maybe add a date/time, so people don't have to guess the order at all.
posted by smackfu at 11:57 AM on November 21, 2005


i've got used to the reverse order. if you "fix" it i'll be all confused again...
posted by andrew cooke at 1:25 PM on November 21, 2005


Take one for the team, cooke!
posted by cortex at 1:55 PM on November 21, 2005


does it mean free beer later?
posted by andrew cooke at 2:14 PM on November 21, 2005


As much as you can drink.
posted by cortex at 3:23 PM on November 21, 2005


Can I piggyback a question here? On "My Recent Comments", in threads where there have many new comments after mine, I can't actually see or go to my own comment. Bug?
posted by mr.marx at 3:49 PM on November 21, 2005


I agree, yay for bringing it up, scarabic.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:54 PM on November 21, 2005 [1 favorite]


I've always hated this bug feature in particular.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:15 PM on November 21, 2005


i think it's disgusting that matt hasn't fixed this already. what's the matter with you man? get your finger out. chop chop, look to it.

sheesh. you claim to be the world's greatest web site designer, make millions from us, sell our children into poverty, screw our women, eat our pigs, and you still can't get your "order by" statements correct.

i'll start with a pint of old peculiar.
posted by andrew cooke at 4:44 AM on November 22, 2005


On "My Recent Comments", in threads where there have many new comments after mine, I can't actually see or go to my own comment.

Seconded. How about just link the text? Like so:

8 since your most recent comment...
posted by smackfu at 6:11 AM on November 22, 2005


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