nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4v73f6qqcu20d2euq0z0qdnw6ayca62ffzy9wctlsav2f60kn7qqave537 (nprofile…e537) All very good points, and it did occur to me that my complaint about shunting messages up and down is actually what we have now anyway. In a streaming client like Sengi (which is based on TweetDeck), if you're at the very top of a column and you have "continuous streaming" switched on, you already have the problem where you could be reading the top-most (most recent) message and another one comes in, and it shunts the one you're reading down. In order to prevent that, you have to scroll down just one notch, which prevents it from auto-loading new messages as they come in.
The only difference would be that it would shunt the message you're reading UP unless you scroll one notch up to prevent it, as opposed to DOWN unless you scroll one notch down to prevent it. So no difference, and the solution is the same.
And as to what it would load when you open the client, come to think of it, the way ChatGPT does it is stupid anyway. If I think of how WhatsApp does it, when you open a conversation, you see the last message at the bottom, and as many messages above it as it needs to fill a screen. It doesn't necessarily load the entire conversation history (which could span years) until you scroll up to view it.
So absolutely, it could definitely be done. And a lot better than long email threads spanning weeks and weeks, with some peoples' comments going on top of previous messages, some people's comments on the bottom, and other people's comments scattered in between. You're right, email's a nightmare, in that regard.
MS Teams defaults to newest message on the bottom when you click on a channel, but it is possible to change it so newest is on top (as it is in most social media clients). I've tried it, though, and it's weird. I couldn't get into it.
So with all that in mind, if there were an option in your social media client to put the newest stuff on the bottom, there wouldn't really be any problem with it. It would take some getting used to, but I think most people would get used to it, and probably end up liking it.
I wonder if there are any clients that support reading posts that way. I'm sure there must be. As you say, it wouldn't be technically difficult to implement. And maybe the "newest on top" trend actually comes from Microsoft and Gmail et. al. anyway, because that's how they've made us used to reading email.... 🤔
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