I asked a question in the MB help forum, getting started, and I’m only getting very technical suggestions by people who seem to be web developers, which I am not. I guess “help” is no help here, since it’s all too technical for me.

@renevanbelzen what's your question?

@kitt How can I read in chronological order? Seems a basic question, but the solutions offered are very technical (for me at least).

@renevanbelzen help … what’s the question ?

@JohnPhilpin Read my previous reply.

@renevanbelzen when you open micro blog - or @gluon for that matter - i guess it opens in ‘reverse’ chronological order .. if I understand your question you seek to start at the beginning and move forward in time.

All blogs and the mv timeline are in reverse - so when you get there you can see the latest.

If you set the reverse then at a quick glance it would always look the same as the last time you visited - so now you have to scroll through all the old posts to get to the new ones - which will take a much longer time - and might in fact reveal no change.

So reverse chronological you would also need from when You want to start.

In @gluon @vincent has done a nice job of essentially bookmarking you in the timeline - so when you leave and then come back - it knows where you are.

Also in both apps conversation threads - which is where chronological makes more sense .. the posts are chronological - starting at the top.

Does that help?

@renevanbelzen As @JohnPhilpin said, you are probably looking for a timeline sync marker. I think @manton has plans to develop that soon in the native app but @gluon does it already. That might help a little. The conversation threads are the most helpful. Personally, if I see a reply in the time among two other people, I like to hit the Conversation link and start at the top. Yes, sometimes, you are not sure a person is responding to what part of the conversation and as the thread goes longer, probability of chaos approaches 1 but then so does in life.

@JohnPhilpin @pratik Rene's talking about the order of posts on his blog.

@renevanbelzen @pratik @johnphilpin Indeed. There won’t even be any conversation, since I have it turned off on that blog. I expect most my readers on that blog to use a webbrowser, and never interact via comments.

The most online interaction I got from the WP version of that blog in ten years was likes and a few comments. Most people interacted IRL, or on Facebook, when I had it connected to my blog. Since, there, people do interact, a lot, encouraged by the FB algorithm and herd behavior (it is what you do on FB).

It might even be that a static site generator isn’t what I need. In that case, there’s always Ghost, or similar dynamic blog engines. I don’t know that yet. I still have learn how to modify templates, create plugins, etc.

I’ve been told there are ways to create a selective ordering to posts, like chronological on a single day and reverse chronological between days (if I understood correctly).

That will take months to learn how to do. Bonus is that I could make a blog about it, if I wanted 😉

@renevanbelzen write.as seems to make chronological ordering easy. They call it “novel order”. Is this what you are looking for? howto.write.as/display-f...

@toddgrotenhuis Interesting. I'll keep that in mind. It could be useful for projects, like prepping for a marathon event, and have it be a novel like experience. If enough people are interested I could even self-publish.

@simonwoods @johnphilpin Oh? I thought he meant on the timeline

@renevanbelzen this helps a lot - I have been talking about in the app - it looks like you mean on your blog - well beyond my pay grade!! sorry for any confusion.

@pratik @simonwoods - yes - so did I !

@JohnPhilpin No worries!