[PHP-DEV] User comments on php.net/manual/: date sort order descending?
Björn Schotte
just digged through some user comments in the manual which are sorted
date ascending, i.e. oldest posts (from 1999 or 2000) are first. Wouldn't
it be better to sort date descending? There are plenty of issues from
1999/2000 which are already solved in newer PHP versions and I think it
irritate users less if they read the newest comments first.
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Vlad Krupin
- if a post has survived for such a long time, it's probably valuable.
If not, it needs to be deleted rather than moved to the bottom of the
pile. Also, if it's good, it should probably be added to documentation
(and if it's at the top, it'll keep bugging developers to do just that -
I think that's a bonus)
- a lot of posts say something like 'In addition to the previous
post...' or 'the previous post is wrong - someone, delete it! The right
code snippet is...' - it would be extra confusing to reverse the order now.
Vlad
Björn Schotte wrote:
>Hi,
>
>just digged through some user comments in the manual which are sorted
>date ascending, i.e. oldest posts (from 1999 or 2000) are first. Wouldn't
>it be better to sort date descending? There are plenty of issues from
>1999/2000 which are already solved in newer PHP versions and I think it
>irritate users less if they read the newest comments first.
>
>
>
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Björn Schotte
> - if a post has survived for such a long time, it's probably valuable.
Many comments that are >2 years old are antiquated because they're
fixed in newer versions.
> - a lot of posts say something like 'In addition to the previous
> post...' or 'the previous post is wrong - someone, delete it! The right
> code snippet is...' - it would be extra confusing to reverse the order now.
What is better?
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post from f...@bar.com
.... bla ...
post from fo...@bar2.com
In addition to the last comment ...
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or
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post from fo...@bar2.com
In addition to the last comment ...
post from f...@bar.com
.... bla ...
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I think the latter one is better: in the cases of "The previous post
is wrong" one wouldn't dig deeper into the wrong post and have the
"right" solution first.
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