While this is marked rant it is so mild as to be more of a general concern. I like to read blogs, not all blogs, but some blogs. Occasionally I will find a new one and want to read a month or two back. It is at this precise moment that I am frustrated in my effort and usually give up. I fully understand, and agree, that the front page of any blog should be in reverse chronological order, placing the newest content at the top of the page. That’s just good sense. It is not good sense to also sort archives in reverse chronological order. We don’t usually think that way. When we want to go back in the past and look for something we are used to looking in an ascending order, and if we want to read someone’s blog chronologically … good luck. You have to scroll to the bottom of the archive and do a lot of scrolling down to scroll up again to scroll down to scroll up… .
I know most blog owners can change that (and I did with this one and will be adjusting my other ones as soon as I get a chance to fix their code) but for those that are not programmers this is a daunting task. In my opinion the default templates and default settings would be to chronologically sort the archives and reverse sort the main page. It just seems to make better sense.