Viewing Threads in descending date order

[FredtheWhale]

I apologize if this already exists and I've overlooked it, but is there a setting to view a thread in descending date order? It would be convenient to open a thread that I'm following to the most recent posting.

Thanks,

John.

[HB]

Sorry, the sort order of the posts (most recent on the bottom) isn't modifiable. Note that clicking the yellow arrow (looks like this when logged in) will bring you to the last post you haven't read of a given thread, even if there are pages of follow-up posts.

[FredtheWhale]

thanks. That will help.

[cafeIKE]

Sorry, the sort order of the posts (most recent on the bottom) isn't modifiable. Note that clicking the yellow arrow (looks like this <image> when logged in) will bring you to the last post you haven't read of a given thread, even if there are pages of follow-up posts.

I discovered, quite by accident, that it is not "View newest post" as the mouse over indicates

[HB]

Really? It works for me.

Maybe it's the browser not scrolling correctly? Images within a thread can throw off the browser's handling of HTML anchors (the # that follows the URL). This happens because the images are loaded separately and the <img> tags don't include the height because it's not known, so the browser can't calculate precisely where to scroll to bring the anchor to the top. It guesses -- usually wrongly -- and thus the browser doesn't scroll far enough. It's a tradeoff between allowing different image sizes and look ahead fidelity. Some sites avoid this problem by resizing all images to the same height so the <img> tag accurately reflects the size the image will be when it's finally loaded.

BTW, if a thread had lots of images to load and they're large, waiting a few seconds for them to load and then pressing Enter on the URL will properly rescroll to the precise location of the HTML anchor. It's ugly, but I don't have an easier solution. The options are (a) fixing the size of images, or (b) recording their sizes in the database when they're uploaded, which costs in performance and can "break" for offsite images that are later resized. Neither is a perfect answer.

[cafeIKE]

It works for me, i.e. it goes to the last post I haven't read.

However, the mouse over text states "View newest post" rather than the actual action "View Last Unread Post"

Since I did not want to go to the 'newest post', I thought "wotasuslessbutton" it was. Quite by accident that I discovered by clicking on the arrow that I did in fact go to the 'Last Unread Post' and now think "wotacoolbutton"