Reverse the display order of replies in creation / profile comment threads
If I need to post something in a creation's comments that's longer than the comment length limit, I have to break it up into several comments. When I do that, it would be a good outcome for readers to see the comments in the correct order.
But the order in which comments are displayed is parent above descendants and newer siblings above older siblings, so if I post the first part of my long comment as a top level comment, and post the remaining parts in order as replies to that top level comment, readers seeing the comments in the correct order isn't what I get. Instead, I get "readers see first part first, then remaining parts in reverse order".
One workaround would be to post the first part as a top level comment, then post the remaining parts in reverse order as replies to that top level comment, but that requires a lot of mental gymnastics.
Another workaround would be to post the parts in order and make each part a reply to the previous part, but that's only a partial workaround. It's restricted to the case where there are 5 or fewer parts, because Mm's chosen solution to the problem of comments disappearing off the right of the screen was to nerf the thread depth down to 5 instead of adding a horizontal scroll bar.
This problem could be fixed by reversing the display order of non-top level comments from newer above older to older above newer.
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Yeah, it's a little bizarre it's ordered that way. Top-level comments can be latest-first, but children should be oldest-first.
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