Okay, we've all had our weekends and I at least am ready to jump back onto the coding horse. Refresh my memory of what we still have that's either properly broken or is otherwise behaving in an entirely unsatisfactory manner. I think Flat-mode links to individual comments are still broken. I know we need to replace the "noupdate" behavior with explicit "update" behavior. I'm thinking I can get the colors on "*NEW*" comments' subject bars brightened up so that you can ditch dimming and still have easy visual feedback if you like fairly quickly. I'm considering (nearly (can't do "N replies below Threshold)) precisely replicating Nested and adapting the old javascript to it if you care to run it. But what am I forgetting?
Discussion to a minimum here, please, so it doesn't distract from having an all-in-one-place list of things from this release that still need addressed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday March 07 2017, @07:10PM (5 children)
The chevrons are inferior to the +/- buttons in action. I'm not talking about in appearance. I've had to switch my "don't collapse" level to 0, and the experience is quite inferior. (I originally wrote "grossly inferior", but that was overstating the case.)
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @07:23PM
I made a suggestion a few days ago that I will repeat again for your consideration:
The chevron buttons are too small which makes mobile device use too difficult.
Please fix by making the title of the unexpanded comment be a link like it used to be so that clicking the link expands the comment. Bringing back this old functionality would give users a much bigger click target. You can leave the new chevron buttons as they are. This means the user could click either the expand chevron or the comment title link to expand the comment.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:18PM (1 child)
Agreed. Another problem is their use. Does it really make sense for me to have to do THREE clicks to expand an underlying comment? I don't know precisely what the coding obstacles are here, but I personally never experienced all the "slow loading times" that keep being discussed. But now if I want to read responses to a comment, I often have to make numerous separate clicks on the chevrons to see them. (And not even on the same chevron, since additional ones frequently appear when multiple messages are below threshold.)
And no, browsing at -1 is NOT what I want, nor what I think most people want. For most threads, I want to see the top scoring comments by default (which declutters the reading experience), but be easily able to expand a thread to see lower scoring replies to a particular comment.
(Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:38PM
Okay, upon subsequent experimentation, I've discovered I can do away with some of the extra clicks by fiddling with settings. Still, it would be helpful (as other posts have noted above) to expand a whole thread of replies to a post, rather than having to click on each post.
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday March 08 2017, @11:48PM (1 child)
A fix for this is up on https://dev.soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]. The buttons are bigger, use + and -, and the comment title will act as a control just as the buttons do. I will be rolling this out later tonight if I get a chance.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 09 2017, @01:20AM
Thank you.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.