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As shown, the most recent comment is found at the bottom.
Not only that, the comments in my inbox from top to bottom have the timestamps (currently)
It seems like it is ORDER BY CAST(timestamp AS STRING) DESC.
As noted here, the underlying bug was that inbox items were being sorted by their relative timestamps (as strings) rather than by their actual creation dates.
The last build has fixed this error.
I'd like to bump this because I just experienced the same problem. A new comment was very far down the inbox list. At the same time, an older comment that I had read before was highlighted as if it was new.
40 secondsis the largest string beforeyesterday. i.imgur.com/lalZd.png – kennytm Sep 25 '10 at 11:36