Hello again,
I will try to explain our challenge. [*REWRITTEN Sept. 27th*]
We are a nearly 5-year old Ning 2.0 site, with many active members who have been with us for much of those 5 years...
All of these members are accustomed to reading comments on discussion and blog posts with the newest posts being LAST (oldest posts show first)... so that the readers read and follow the discussion in progression.
[We are a language-learning site, and it helps the learning to see the original post, and then the gradual building of understanding.
This is fine.
Our challenge though, is this:
As we understand it, if we change the order of Comments, it will apply site-wide, module-wide. [So if we change the order of Comments to Newest first, it would apply to Groups, to our Forum, and to profile comment walls -- changing all of these to reverse the order of appearance. We want to have a different order for profile page comments (newest first) and then a different order for Groups and Forum (oldest first).
As we have our settings now, oldest comments appear first. This is what we want in groups. This is what we want in forums.
But this is not what we want on profile page comment walls.
On profile pages, where the "Welcome to LEWWWP" messages from 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years ago are the FIRST thing migrating members will read/see, we don't want this order.
We want members to see their most recent comment wall posts first.
For example: http://lewwwpcom.jamroomhosting.com/jean
Jean, a long-time active member will log in here and see a welcome message post on his comment wall... from January 2012!
This is not so fine.
I want him to see the NEW welcome messages he'll surely receive from folks who find him and follow him again here on JamRoom --I want him to see those first.
Please can you guide us so we can change ONLY the order of profile page comments so that the newest comments are at the top. [but leaving oldest first for forum and groups]
*I hope this makes more sense*
As always, thank you.
updated by @holly-dilatush: 12/28/16 12:55:51PM
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