Displaying Conversations in Reverse Order

[lihai123456789]

When the number of sessions under the same project increases, it causes the conversation content to rapidly expand. Could the session content be displayed in reverse order, eliminating the need for constant scrolling?

[daaain]

Hey @lihai123456789!

I like the idea, but we're currently working on rewriting message ordering using a DAG: #97

But once that's ready, I think it would make sense to have an option to reverse the order, I also have projects with several pages of sessions so this would be useful.

[cboos]

Well, I'm quite skeptical about this one... I don't see how reading the transcript in reverse order would work.

Maybe we could reframe this ER into: "How do I quickly see what changed since last time?"

And then, I can see the need/use... If we're in incremental mode, we could reuse the branch index to add markers showing the places in the tree where we have new threads. In most situations (a purely sequential transcript), that would be just one "new" link: you'd follow it and reach the first newly added message since the last generation. This and the following ones could be decorated with a green sidebar to suggest "added" content.

[cboos]

Ah, and re-reading: I think @lihai123456789 was thinking about reversing the order of messages in the session content (I was skeptical about that), while @daaain was perhaps thinking about the chronological order of the sessions ("several pages of sessions") - and that I'd be OK with.

[daaain]

The reverse doesn't need to be chronological, but using whatever order we got from the DAG based processing and reversing it. That said, now I realised that the UI assuming top to down order will not work so this could be much more complicated than I thought 🤔