Right now the collection:next and collection:previous tags are reversed when in a dated context. Given the most common use case of beginning to read/browse at the beginning/newest entry (LTR) and going onwards to the older, you would have these links:
<< Previous (already read, newer) || Next (haven't read, older) >>
This is easily confusing though, and I know we've had it wrong a dozen times at various phases of dev (v1, v2, v3) and maybe I have it wrong now and am thinking backwards. Please correct me if so.
I tried to fix it locally in the template by adjusting the sorting (date:desc), but the param wasn't respected.
I think we should also add collection:newer and collection:older tags/aliases to make this much easier to intuit. Way less confusing, and would only apply to dated collections.
I never ever ever remember which way is "next" due to sorting, I'd love something clearer like newer that looks at the sorting, for date collections.
Fixed, and added collection:newer and collection:older.
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Fixed, and added
collection:newerandcollection:older.