Sort order of comments on the Conversation tab

[carsten-krueger]

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In a pull request on the Conversation tab it would be good to be able to change the sort order of comments.
Currently comments are sorted in ascending order from oldest to newest. I'd like to sort comments in descending order so that the newest comment is on top. As far as I know there is currently no way to do that.

[roshan-rubrik]

This is very much needed.

[RobertTheBlair]

When we get this feature, please have it be a sticky preference on user settings. (along with other things, like default pref for whitespace in diffs)

[tfactor2]

Here is a simple TamperMonkey script to get the job done:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         github-pr-conversation-reversed
// @version      0.1
// @description  Reverses the order of conversation (from the recent to the oldest one)
// @author       tfactor2
// @match        https://github.com/*/pull/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=github.com
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function reverseConversations() {
    const $discussionDiv = document.querySelector('.js-discussion');
    if ($discussionDiv && !$discussionDiv.hasAttribute('data-github-pr-conversation-reversed-processed')) {
        const children = Array.from($discussionDiv.children);
        children.reverse().forEach(child => $discussionDiv.appendChild(child));
        $discussionDiv.setAttribute('data-github-pr-conversation-reversed-processed', 'true');
    }
    setTimeout(reverseConversations, 1000);
})();