- Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:26 pm
#169318
I have been using the SF site for about a month now. One thing that is extremely frustrating is the comment ordering. Not oldest to newest or newest to oldest, it doesnt seem to have an order at all. I see a comment posted 2 years ago, but a reply from 3 years ago, how this is possible I am not sure. Then you have comments from 6 months ago above a 1 year old post, but three posts later you see 1 from 3 days ago.
For the most part the site is awesome, but honestly the comment system is lacking usability. I read about the starred comments getting preference, but web users are not used to a jumbled filter like this, they are used to seeing numbers of thumbs up or down or number of helpful stars, not comments shown out of (or lack of) order.
Maybe a hightlighted comment that has the highest number of star ratings, but still in order, ordered from newest to oldest.
For the most part the site is awesome, but honestly the comment system is lacking usability. I read about the starred comments getting preference, but web users are not used to a jumbled filter like this, they are used to seeing numbers of thumbs up or down or number of helpful stars, not comments shown out of (or lack of) order.
Maybe a hightlighted comment that has the highest number of star ratings, but still in order, ordered from newest to oldest.