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Sorting messages in a thread

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Miha Markič replied
Miha Markič
Miha Markič

I'm reading the question Thread's broken sorting makes it completely unusable and I have to agree that order of messages within thread is not the best one - ascending. For example, I am subscribed to a forum messages and I'm getting all the notifications for a topic to a thread. Currently I have like 85 messages in a thread and to see the newest one I have to scroll all the way down each time - scrolling 85 messages is a lot and it is getting worse because the number of messages keeps growing. After I've seen the newest message, I have to scroll all the way up to close the thread. (or am I missing something - perhaps some shortcuts?)

But I guess for some such ordering is obviously fine. Hence, I guess, an option how to sort threads might come handy. Perhaps even having a default sort order and an override per thread?

PS. funnily enough, I'll have the same issue with notifications for this question :)

I'm reading the question [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1585904 Thread's broken sorting makes it completely unusable] and I have to agree that order of messages within thread is not the best one - ascending. For example, I am subscribed to a forum messages and I'm getting all the notifications for a topic to a thread. Currently I have like 85 messages in a thread and to see the newest one I have to scroll all the way down each time - scrolling 85 messages is a lot and it is getting worse because the number of messages keeps growing. After I've seen the newest message, I have to scroll all the way up to close the thread. (or am I missing something - perhaps some shortcuts?) But I guess for some such ordering is obviously fine. Hence, I guess, an option how to sort threads might come handy. Perhaps even having a default sort order and an override per thread? PS. funnily enough, I'll have the same issue with notifications for this question :)

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Thread sorting changes require a new database which is a multiyear project and is still at least another year away (https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1tyhp1l/comment/oq5f14k/).

You can comment on/vote for this at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/e-mail-threads-top-level-entry-oldest-vs-first-unread-vs-newest/idi-p/81502 and https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-the-option-to-sort-conversations-with-last-post-first/idi-p/14728.

Related bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479969

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686504

Miha Markič
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Thanks, voted, not exactly the answer I was hoping for (need to wait for a long time) but nevertheless a very helpful answer.

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