Hi there,

Currently, that how it should behave currently as those views are most common to be used for Discussion perspective. But if you insist, you can do some customization here .../components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/discussions/item/default.php by arranging codes below accordingly base on your need.

[gist type="php"]
<form class="es-app-discussion-reply-form" data-reply-form data-new-reply>
<div class="alert alert-dismissable alert-error alert-empty">
<button type="button" class="close" data-bs-dismiss="alert">×</button>
<?php echo JText::_('APP_GROUP_DISCUSSIONS_EMPTY_ERROR'); ?>
</div>

<?php echo ES::bbcode()->editor('reply_content', '' , array('files' => $files , 'uid' => $cluster->id , 'type' => $cluster->getType(), 'controllerName' => $cluster->getTypePlural()) , array('data-reply-editor' => '', 'data-reply-editor-new' => '')); ?>

<div class="o-form-actions es-bleed--bottom">
<button type="button" class="pull-right btn btn-es-primary-o" data-reply-submit><?php echo JText::_('APP_GROUP_DISCUSSIONS_SUBMIT_REPLY'); ?></a>
</div>
</form>
[/gist]

And you need to some customization on the cores file here .../administrator/components/com_easysocial/models/discussions.php under getreplies() functions , that requires you to backup this files and re-apply them once you done any update/upgrade for Easysocial.

Please advice.

Hi Abdul,

Thank you for the detailed reply.

I spent the last hour to play with it - after adding a response, cache cleanup is required.

So let's return to the beginning - the whole system - easysocial - is based on the most recent first.

So discussion, where everything happens there - it is not logical to work the opposite.
The users mention it as NO. 1 issue !! Poor UX poor UI.
They complain why they should scroll 2 minutes to see the latest response.

Or, if they want to upload a file - they have to scroll down to do so.

Please consult your team to give it the same look&feel as other parts of easysocial.

thank you
Udi

Hi there,

Currently, discussion should works that way and those news response should be at last one and response should be after latest first.

But if you insisted that it should shown they you propose, you can submit a feature request regarding this issues by creating a new ticket on the forums and set it to "Feature Request" so that everyone else could vote for it. We will prioritize this feature during the development process for the next major version of EasySocial if there are more people request on this.

Thanks for your understanding.

Hi Abdul,

I'm sorry I don't succeed to explain how this issue is so important.

from data transfer perspective, all data is transferred while most of it is irrelevant.

The users consider it as a poor approach so our image is disturbed ...

Regarding your suggestion to vote for it:
If someone uses the discussion intensively he should point out that issue.

Thank you.
Udi

Hey Udi,

To be honest, a discussion is not really an activity. Having the activities show up latest first makes sense because you only need to scroll down to load older posts.

Hey Mark,

thank you for reviewing that issue.

We run courses.
For each course, members are gathered into a group.
Each user has a private discussion.

Into that discussion, he or she uploads materials during the course time.
Each group member and the trainers as well write their reviews into the discussion.

The course is about 2 month period.

So you can see that each discussion has a lot of data - many uploads and many comments.

When a member has to find the latest response, he has to scroll down to the end in order to read and to respond.

Each course is complaining on that point fro day 1.

We migrated fro Jomsocial because users refused to work with the system ...

Discussion is for discussion - and you're the Master !!!

You know that people cannot scroll down to the end - your system displays the most newest on top -
easy to use and less data transport.

Please consider it.

Have a nice weekend.
Udi

Hey Udi,

Perhaps we could add a settings for discussions on whether you want discussions to be sorted latest first or oldest first. This would probably be ideal for different use cases.

However, another complexity arises when you have discussions sorted as latest first because when you post a reply, you wouldn't see your reply until you scroll up.

Hi Mark,

Now, when the royal ceremony has ended, I can reply

If there a good reason to migrate to stackideas' products, it is you and your attitude.

The approach you suggested above is exactly what we need.

you may solve the Display after Inset by making new select for the x last records.

and please don't forget the Discussions list on the sidebar.

So easysocail will be the best networking product !!!

thank you
Udi

Thanks for your input on this Udi