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Collapse comment thread? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by wahming@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] namastex@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] klin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] zalack@kbin.social 1 points 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?