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posted by on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the lingere dept.

Well, crap. I have no idea why or when it happened but the Threshold setting when using Threaded-TOS appears to be non-functional at the moment. It's supposed to set the value below which a comment and any of its subcomments will be collapsed, unless a subcomment is over the Breakthrough value which should cause that comment only to be expanded. Right now it's functioning as if Threshold were set to 6. I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1.

I can't monkey with it right this second but I'll see if I can get it fixed some time this weekend. Just a hotfix patch to the live code not a full site update.

Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.

Update: Okay, I can't fix something that ain't broke and TOS is functioning as intended. I just forgot that Threshold applied only to top-level comments, all subcomment trees should be collapsed by default, and Breakthrough was the setting for subcomments to show up no matter what. This doesn't make sense to me but then I'm not the one who decided it should function like that and I don't use TOS. If you lot want it to function differently or want a new mode that's similar, drop your insipid inspired ideas here and if there's enough demand I'll put it on the todo list.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43PM (#945836) Homepage Journal

    Thanks, jerk. Now it's snowing.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday January 20 2020, @03:28PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Monday January 20 2020, @03:28PM (#945847)

    Yeah, sorry. It was a fairly secret crowdsourcing experiment- we got everyone to turn on their heat, open all windows and doors, and the updraft sent the snow your way. Blame the tradewinds.