How to find/sort comments in the long Coffee Corner discussions?

Maybe it's just me but I've been struggling to follow some longer conversations in the Coffee Corner. All the comments are only displayed in the "tree" hierarchy structure and there is no sorting available. So when a new comment (usually it's on another comment) is added somewhere in the middle of the conversation it is practically impossible to find.

How are we supposed to manage these discussions? Some old SCN champions like "It's Friday!" went on for years and for dozens of pages. Is New SCN not supposed to have long conversations?