You then need to reverse the order so page one will show the most recent replies instead of the oldest.
Tis a good suggestion – In fact we tried this last year and our webdev made all forum threads reverse pagination so newest replies showed first. Everyone on the collab team liked it but a fair amount of other members expressed confusion about the change. Ultimately we reverted and nothing came from it.
But the same thing to be an option per user’s preference rather than a global change, that seems like a decent idea. I’ve been told that Nick will take a look at a few proposed updates. So hopefully those will be implemented by April! 🙌