That always throws me off cause so many websites do it differently from another. I'd say stick with what you have now. By now most people are familiar with the comment layout, changing it would cause more confusion than anything in my opinion.

I'm seeing more and more prominent websites flipping this around.

Flipping them would make it easier to see the newest comments, instead of scrolling to the bottom of the page.

especially on those that have over a hundred comments lol. people are use to how it is now but like you said other sites are flipping them so i think they will get use to it pretty quickly since they will be seeing it that way elsewhere in my opinion having the newer comments at the top is easier to check them i think you should give it a go. if it doesn't work out right or no one likes it you can always switch it back

I am so used to that sidebar @ the snippet pages :P

But sounds nice :)

@Jordyk19 Well I hope you don't miss it too much.

There is another way... you can hide all but the last n comments and have a "show previous comments" button. ala fb.

@bitfed Yes, that's an idea too. Might be good for pages that have 50+ comments.

You can order them by votes.

@BlueThen I don't think I'll be doing that. Hacker News and Reddit both do that and it really removes any sort of timeline to the comments.

Well, being completely flat, it probably wouldn't work here as coherent discussion would be nearly impossible.

I'm not a big fan of timelines either, though. Once you have thousands of people commenting on one post, the majority of comments end up being very low-substance (See: YouTube's comments).

Perhaps, like the front page, you can prioritize comments by people you follow over everybody else (and have an expandable quote system like Twitter has)

I'm considering allowing for threaded comments, but I need to work out the implementation details such as how many levels deep to allow, how to display multiple levels on the homepage, etc.