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This is a very recent change, a day old or so.
In a recent Dropbox facelift, there's been a functional change in sorting comments on multiple-page files such as PDF. The comments used to be sorted ...
Yes, yes, yes and yes!!! I completely agree with @myyysha and @nkopp2;
I think it is ridiculous that the first thing that pops up when I do an online search for "dropbox comment order by page" is this thread.
It is a sorting order function, just like all the other sorting order functions Dropbox already allows.
Scrolling through the "comments in order of page" makes far more sense when navigating the pdf-file within the comment section, rather then navigating the comment-section within the pdf-file. You get to skip the content list / scrolling through the pdf-file looking for "yellow boxes" (which still doesn't direct to the comment btw).
Me or my colleague could just open the comment section; easily see all the pages that are relevant in chronological order; use the hot-link to go to THAT page (comment on page 174? easy, scroll till you get to the 100-pages and narrow your search). Now if I add a comment to page 36 out of 500 pages that already have comments, the comment gets burried at the bottom, instead of being next to its counter-parts.
Sorry I am a bit passionate about this but I am honestly a bit pissed; comments are a good on-the-fly note-taking tool for my university books (a perk of the comment order), but the lack of chronological order based on page makes it horribly unsuited right now (forcing me to now find an alternative and convert my comments to some other document, so I can actually find things).