Reverse Chronological Order

Items ordered from newest to oldest.

This order is "bad" because it assumes the newest information is all that matters, however in most situations context of the past is required to make sense of the present. To combat this issue most people are forced to constantly read to keep up.

The nice thing about topic based buckets is that they don't have to be infinite which means they are allowed to be in the "right" order, oldest to newest.

Another bad habit formed by Reverse Chronological Order is that it most people don't bother to read the past and just ask, "wait, what are you talking about?". Or in other words, "please rewrite the context so I don't have to find and read it".

'easier to ask then find' problem


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