Ability to choose default comment sort in user settings

[iByteABit256]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

I would like to be able to select a default comment sort just like with post sorting

Describe the solution you'd like.

A new field in user settings for comment sort type, just like with the default post sort.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Related to #3796, but I think the user should be able to have this option too

Additional context

No response

[Die4Ever]

On Reddit, you can set the sorting order for comments on a per post basis. So sometimes the comments inside a megathread would be set to sorted by new by default. So I guess the post should be able to override the user's default?

[iByteABit256]

On Reddit, you can set the sorting order for comments on a per post basis. So sometimes the comments inside a megathread would be set to sorted by new by default. So I guess the post should be able to override the user's default?

This sounds good and would solve my use case, maybe it should be opened as a separate issue alongside this though

[dessalines]

This should also have a site-wide setting, in addition to the user one.

[dessalines]

For this, we should either utilize the user's default_post_sort (with the post -> comment sort mapping), or add a default_comment_sort field. I'd probably prefer the first one, because that's already in place.