Simple suggestion: Two different types of 'new' sort for comments

lordpipe
2018-06-13T05:46:22Z

One thing that's always annoyed me about reddit is that sorting a thread by "new" isn't as useful as scrolling down to the end of a discussion on traditional forum software like phpbb. I propose two ways of sorting threads:

Breadth-first: Exactly the same as the current sort on reddit and tildes. Each nesting level is sorted independently.
This sort makes it easy to find the oldest discussion of a thread, as well as new top-level comments.

Depth-first: Newer replies 'bump' threads. The timestamp of the latest reply of any depth determines the sorting of all of the parents.
This sort makes it easy to find the newest discussion.

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