Well, it seems that 'Oldest' is now the default for comments - at least for me. Haven't had time to play around with it yet, but VERY pleased to see that things are apparently back to a useful state in this regard. Thanks !!!!

Well, I still hate the default to 'Newest first' as much as when it first came out - and *especially* the fact that it doesn't remember my preference.

However, I did happen to notice one thing today that makes it slightly less bad. While switching to 'Oldest' seems to destroy the 'New posts' feature, it turns out that next to the number of comments, there is an item in red showing how many new comments there are (presumably only when you are in new comments mode). Anyway, clicking on that DOES in fact take you to the first new comment after changing the order to oldest first.

So it's not quite so bad. Very disappointing that no-one from SA noticed this criticism in the earlier comments and pointed out this useful feature ... sigh ...

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 !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks. I know that finding the ad likely to be causing the problem can be difficult. Anyway, things were mostly going fine today for a while before the problem started to re-occur, so I took some screenshots.

Although it wasn't showing in the videos I posted yesterday, I'm rather suspicious of a weird ad that showed up on two different pages when I started getting the problem today. The first one was a Brian Gilmartin article. The other two are from Jeff Miller's Weighing the week ahead - and show the memory usage as it rises.

Thanks, Ian

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