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Allow sorting comments by net +1 + -1 count on the issue view #601
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TPS commentedon Mar 12, 2016
#527?
cirosantilli commentedon Mar 12, 2016
@TPS true, it is close (had forgtten that lol) I think both should be kept as this mentions the difference between upvotes and downvotes and deals more precisely with the new situation. I'll link to the other on description.
cirosantilli commentedon Mar 12, 2016
@TPS note that this is about comments, not issues. Issues here #600
TPS commentedon Mar 12, 2016
@cirosantilli I'm obviously starting to lose track of all these fine variations of these interrelated issues.
Thanks! 😜
[-]Sort comments by net +1 + -1 count on the issue view[/-][+]Allow sorting comments by net +1 + -1 count on the issue view[/+]alecbz commentedon Oct 6, 2017
I don't know how much sense this would make. Issue comments tend to be much more conversational and chronological (i.e., people responding back and forth to each other), unlike stackoverflow answers. I think something like the ability to pin comments (#1008) would be a reasonable compromise between the two models.
Mottie commentedon Jun 7, 2018
I created a userscript that'll allow you to sort comments by reaction. Clicking on the sort a third time will restore the initial comment order.
phil294 commentedon Jul 20, 2021
This would be very useful, specially given that GitHub issue comment threads have now surpassed StackOverflow in terms of usefulness. More often than not, the answer to a library-specific problem is to be found somewhere deeply nested in some issue page. Endlessly scrolling is annoying however, a simple
Sort by 👍would save so much time for everyone.Mottie's userscript is great! But unfortunately it still requires you to repeatedly click the
Load more...link several times, as GitHub – for some reason – even hides top voted comments by default in long threads.Oh how I wish we had arrived in the age of decentralization already. Then all of this begging-some-platform-developers-for-new-features baloney wouldn't be necessary in the first place...