You can choose whether comments will appear in chronological order with oldest comments at the top or newest comments at the top. This configuration setting will not affect the order of replies on a forum post - which display oldest at the top.

To change this setting:

1. Go to the Admin panel: Advanced section > Configuration settings page.
2. Type comment in the Search config settings field to narrow the config settings results.

   

3. Find the config setting:

   comments.sort.descending

4. Click in the Value column beside the config setting.
   1. Select true if you want newest comments to display at the top.
   2. Select false if you want oldest comments to display at the top.
5. Click Save.