Is there any way to collapse comments and their children in the interface? Seems like a fairly basic feature but I can’t find it.

  • klin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I love the huge touch target for mobile friendliness, and I’ve done some work to make sure accidental collapses don’t happen (if you mean to select text it won’t collapse, if you click on a link or a button it won’t collapse either!)

    is there a common situation where you’d accidentally collapse stuff when you dont mean to?

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      1 year ago

      I like how RIF (Reddit Is Fun) does it. If you click on a comment (or post on your front page), it reformats the comment box so that it opens up additional options. One of them happens to be collapse among other basic commands like reply, report, next parent comment, previous parent comment and stuff like that. It makes the comment and front page sections a little bit more compact and easy to read quickly without options cluttering the interface. The voting options are the only options that stick out without clicking on a comment so you can easily upvote/downvote and move on.

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        1 year ago

        interesting, sounds closer to a complete redesign on how we see and interact with the comment – i mostly use apollo so i kinda took the design language there but def see what you’re saying!

        limiting my change to specifically comment thread collapsing since that sounds like a bigger overhaul!

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          1 year ago

          I like you’re approach. It’s exactly the way Relay handles it.

          That being said… Maybe you need different UX for mobile vs Web?

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      1 year ago

      Like @psyspoop said, touchpads can be prone to accidental collapses. Maybe setting the touch target to be on the “header” of the comment (the whitespace between the username and the upvote/downvote buttons) could be a good compromise?

      • klin@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        TBH that’s not too hard to do, but it goes back to the whole mobile friendliness :(

        IMO i think the upside of mobile friendliness outweigh the times people accidentally tap on touchpad, and i personally think just having the header being a touch target is a little too small for mobile users… so i prefer the whole comment being a target

        obviously if folks disagree heavily i could probably adjust but i’m curious what @ernest thinks

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          1 year ago

          What if there was an option somewhere to switch between the two? Mobile users could keep the full comment collapsing, and web users could switch to header-only collapsing.