A new web newsreader

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 12:27:44 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> you receive an A+ from me!
>
> BTW, is there any way to sort the threaded view so that the 
> newest messages appear on top?  Simply because, in a web page, 
> the top is what shows up first.

Thanks :) The reason why I chose to sort by older posts first is 
a bit convoluted:

Generally, in a threaded discussion, replies always have to 
appear below their parents. Even though it's possible to sort 
siblings in the reverse order, it would be rather inconsistent. 
The same goes with entire threads - the last post in a group will 
appear as the *bottom-most* child of its parent, inside the 
*topmost* thread.

This was not a problem for the split-view mode, because 
JavaScript scrolls down the message list when the page is loaded. 
I've finished the threaded view after the split-view, which 
inherited its order. I decided to leave it as it is for 
consistency with what the view was modelled after - mailing list 
archives.

I'm thinking that we could eventually have a "Preferences" page, 
where we could go nuts with options and customization.