When i press a parent comment it hides all child comment but then parent comment also becomes hidden. Please change this behavior. Comments shouldn’t hide for a single press . When you long press the parent comment it should only hide all its child comments. Parent comment should still be visible.

  • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ
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    2 years ago

    Excuse my ignorance, could you elaborate on what would be the benefit?
    I did file a request for being able to collapse all comments above the current one until it leaves the parent visible. But collapsing all below would be non-intuitive to me.

    • joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Let me show you with pictures when tapping on a comment on each app:

      Relay: Expanded and collapsed

      Sync: Expanded and collapsed

      Official: Expanded and collapsed

      Jerboa: Expanded and collapsed

      See the way only the comments disappear on the 3rd parties with an indicator on the side to show comments are hidden? And on the official app the comment goes to a small gray preview of the comment? The way Jerboa works now is closer to the Official reddit app, but has no context of the comment, like the Official reddit app. I think it should either 1) change the behavior to be more like the other 2 I show, or 2) keep it as is, but add context to the collapsed comment.

      I would prefer option 1 because that is more intuitive to me, but I think that is because that is what I’m used to, and not because it is the “right” way of doing it.

      • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ
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        2 years ago

        I see what you mean. Jerboa leaves only the username visible but hides the comment from view. I just checked Boost which i used, and it does the same. I’m with you in that being able to find a specific sub-thread again after it has been collapsed would indeed be good. I would prefer the collapsed comment not to take too much space, so that would be small font and truncation for me.

        I found the collapse function somewhat unusable anyway, because i would want to collapse when i had reached the end of a branch in a sub-sub-thread, but then i’d want to collapse only that branch which i had just read, so that i could get back to the parent of that branch, get the context again, and start reading the next branch from there. Therefore i’d find a collapse-up function logical. It could still leave a bit of context of already-read stuff visible, though, as long as it doesn’t take too much space.

        Care to file a feature request over at github?
        Just found that this might already be done in the next version: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/438