IceCubesApp
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Dimillian
Feature request: Ability to set the most recent items at the bottom (instead of the top)
User story As a user reading my timeline I want the oldest items at the top, and the newest items at the bottom, so that the order matches how you read a book, or write in a diary.
As you write a diary, the newest writing goes at the bottom of what you have written.
I am sad that top posting became the dominant model.
A: Because it breaks the flow of information. Q: Why is it frowned upon? A: Putting replies above the original post. Q: What is top posting?
I'm sympathetic to this. I set my RSS reader to oldest first.
Have a hard time figuring out how the ui might work though.
How would pull to refresh work?
Where does the current reading position get set to? If it's the bottom, you're still reading backwards but upwards.
Is push to refresh possible?
Ah, now I see Ice Cubes doesn't always preserve the reading position, so when I open it its often at now, not the last place I was.
Without a constant preserve reading position feature, this Feature request is less useful, but I think still some help. I am a grognard who remembers when Outlook and then g-mail made top-posting the dominant posting style.
To me, it makes more sense to have new at the bottom. The option for it would be very nice.
When you enter the app, you start somewhere in the middle of your timeline where you left off, and the number in the top right tells you how many posts are new. Then you scroll up to read them in order, but you have to constantly scroll up enough to see the beginning of the next toot, then read downwards.
Makes more sense to keep scrolling down and reading down, until you are caught up to present time.
Plus, when toots have embedded toots inside of them, scrolling up to them messes up the smooth scrolling once it's rendered, pushing everything down jarringly, sometimes enough that it's confusing what toot you were going to.
The other option is to tap the top of the screen to start at the newest and scroll down naturally, but then what's the point of the new toot count?
