Shoutbox is backwards

How do you get Shoutbox to put new messages at the top of the list and not the bottom?

There needs to be a bloody stapler war in the IT world so it is decided once and for all if new items go at the top of the page or at the bottom.

In any case, the shoutbox fails all over the place as you need to scroll down the read the last comment.

I will push my first staples into the arm of one saying new items at the bottom.  I know who you are !

Yeah, this would be a really needed modification ...

i just started looking at this and hopefully someone can come in and give more help. But on the BxDolShoutbox.php page in the shoutbox module - around line 81:

            $sQuery = "SELECT * FROM `{$this -> sTablePrefix}messages` WHERE `ID` > " . (int) $iLastId . " ORDER BY `ID`";

I changed it to

$sQuery = "SELECT * FROM `{$this -> sTablePrefix}messages` WHERE `ID` > " . (int) $iLastId . " ORDER BY `ID` DESC";

Now - it will show messages starting from the newest if you refresh the page, all messages posted while page is open will still appear with the newest at the bottom.

Will let you know what else I can fugure out later.

If yer gonna fix it, fix it all the way and make new messages come in at the top!!!

Has anyone ever noticed that all the chat systems and shout boxes on the planet, scroll from bottom to top with new messages appearing at the bottom?  Why, all of a sudden, is the shoutbox backwards? You guys drive me up the wall sometimes.

 thats not correct!

Prove it.

 at least most shoutboxes offer a setting for changing the message order ...

I want mine to fold in from the sides, then push the older one down a couple inches.

 RE:

 That sounds a bit obscene.

So you want to type a response at the bottom of the shoutbox then scroll up the screen to read it, then scroll back down to the bottom and type a response again?

That seems backwards to me.

But then again, my shoutbox isn't 200px high, it's 600px.

So, I guess if your shoutbox has only displays couple lines of text at a time, that would make sense.

My members just aren't bright enough to scroll to the top to read them, or too lazy to look higher than right above where they just typed their message.  LOL