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Users typically want to see the most recent activity first. Think tweets, online banking transactions, news updates. It makes it easy to see what's new since you last checked.
With conversations, it's different because there is the context of whatever message came before and after the one you're looking at. It's a similar situation to what you see in ...
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Let the user decide because everyone is different.
From the User Experience standpoint this can be tricky. If you have a very long running discussion then you have to navigate down through the whole thread until you reach the part that you're looking for. Since English speakers read from top to bottom this is somewhat intuitive, but it can be quite time ...
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I am trying to remember which email service other than gmail and office outlook groups emails with the same subject line.
That said, the reason Gmail might want to show the latest email at the last is so that the user can scan through a long list of related emails and quickly get an understanding of the starting of the discussion and its current state as he ...
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