Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feedback, Please: sorting threads by date of newest article

[Steve Davies]

On 7/11/06, jef_e <address@hidden> wrote:
> Artur Jachacy wrote:
> > Charles Kerr wrote:
> >> Can anyone think of a reason for Pan to /not/ behave that way?
>
> > Because that's not how it's been done. That should be reason enough.

:) I can kind of agree with the sentiment...

In fact I think that the sort by oldest/first in thread is appropriate
for binary groups where the order that the posts in a thread STARTED
arriving is appropriate to keep things grouped nicely. On the other
hand a text-only group is often read more like email, and in email
terms sort by most recent/last in thread is more appropriate so that
newly updated threads are grouped.

Again, the ideal solution is probably a per-group setting - How about
having the sort-by-date clicker have 4 states instead of two?

 Current: Sort ascending, sort descending

 New: Sort ascending (start of thread), sort descending (start of
thread), sort ascending (end of thread), sort descending (end of
thread).

I don't even know if the UI setup allows such a thing, but IMHO it
would allow quick access to what was wanted.

Cheers,
Steve