Comment Sort / Ranking
Would be amazing if comments could be sorted by "likes" or ranked, similar to Reddit. Engenders great community engagement and democratic comment filtering.
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Improved comments functionality is in development now so you should see the next iteration relatively soon.
I’d be happy with a simple sort on posted date irrespective of conversation so I can see most recent comments on top, allowing quick monitoring of the comment feed. Hard to believe such a basic use case is not supported...although I might simply not be seeing it..always a possibility haha. The existing “conversation” based format means the most recent posts may be embedded as responses to older posts, buried in the middle of the comment stack...forcing a painful scroll through reams of old material to find a handful of recent comments.
Hi - sort by most recent on top has been implemented now and is now the default. Thanks for the feedback.
While I think it is great that you are providing more choices for how to view comments, I absolutely HATE having newest first as the default - especially since you don't seem to remember when I change the sort order on a particular article and it goes back to 'newest' when I try to read just the new comments.
Case in point, the comments on Fear & Greed Trader's articles tend to flow in a 'reasonably' logical order. Newest comments first makes it VERY difficult to follow the flow !!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE at least provide a new 'setting' so that I can choose the default !!!!!!!!!!!
Why did you change the default sort to newest first? It means as I read down the page, I'm often reading comments made in reference or reply to comments I haven't seen yet. There should be a place (I'm not aware if there is) where I can make a global persistent preference in how I want the new posts displayed.
Please also enable / create a feature to search comments, and to sort by date