Is there a way to (re)order my LJ friends feed?

[drwex]

Recently I committed not one but two faux pas because I saw an entry from a friend and responded without thinking "Oh, wait, there's context for this that I really should read up on." Sure enough, said context had appeared earlier, but due to the standard newest-to-oldest ordering of the friends feed I hadn't seen it yet.

What I want is some sort of "oldest-unread-to-newest-unread" list but damifino how to get that. One reason I don't change some other UIs (looking at you here, gmail) is that I can at least cobble together a semblance of this ordering from visual cues. In gmail it's bold vs non-bold so even though the list always puts newest stuff on top I can quickly scan backward and see where the boldface stops.

jbsegal (at least I think it was) mentioned that my desired ordering could be achieved by wrangling LJ options but I've failed to find the relevant option. I did figure out how to go to paginated rather than infinite-scroll listing, which is WAY more usable (*) but I can't see any way to affect the ordering of things, nor a way to select only unread friends-feed entries.

Help me, Dr LJ?

(*) infinite scroll is f'ing awful if you comment. When you comment, the feed is replaced by the entry page on which you write your comment. Then you go back to the friends feed, but you NEVER EVER go back to the same place due to how infinite scroll doesn't work. For months now I've been trying to train myself to right-click and open in new tab the comments page so I can read and comment there and then close that tab to regain my feed-list context. But every so often I screw up and BAM there goes my context again.

Comments

[donnad.livejournal.com]

When it comes to reading LJ, I long ago got in the habit of scrolling to the bottom of the page and reading posts from the bottom to the top, thus older posts before newer posts. If I get to the bottom and realize I haven't seen that post before I go back 10 entries to the previous page of posts and do the same until I happen upon a post I have already seen. Lately that hasn't been an issue since most mornings I get up and there are only two or three new posts that weren't there the previous day.

And the comment thing opening a new window is something I too do all the time now.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Infinite scroll blows dead goats.

[ron_newman]

Not that i would ever want it, but I didn't know that infinite scroll was even an option in LJ.

[ceo]

I've always had the habit of skimming LJ and clicking lj-cuts and comments into new tabs, then going through the tabs in reverse order, thus making them chronological. Facebook's infinite scrolling annoys me because God forbid you ever left-click a link and try to get back after having scrolled down a lot.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

For my friends page theme/layout (which is the fairly damned old "Blue Days
Smooth Sailing by Michael Raffoul"),

http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml
Presentation->Additional Options

Order of entries shown on a Friends page
"Most recent first" means the newest entry is at the top of the page, "Least Recent First" means the newest entry is at the bottom of the page.

[drwex]

Ah I see. As I suspected when I replied to your other comment I think I lost this capability when I was forced to migrate to a newer theme. C'est la vie.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

This. I open new tabs up to the page where I read the last entry and read bottom to top from there, usually. And open new tabs for longer entries I where I want to reply.