Allow sorting comments by net +1 + -1 count on the issue view

[cirosantilli]

In addition to chronological.

Sample URL #9

Analogous to #600 but for comments.

Stack Overflow style get the best answer first.

Likely implies #605

[TPS]

#527?

[cirosantilli]

@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]

@TPS note that this is about comments, not issues. Issues here #600

[TPS]

@cirosantilli I'm obviously starting to lose track of all these fine variations of these interrelated issues.

Thanks! 😜

[alecbz]

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]

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]

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...