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Post by noibl » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 8:25 AM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #2

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

Post by lmm » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 11:27 AM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #2

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

Post by prophetjohn » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 7:40 PM UTC

noibl wrote: post #31

prophetjohn wrote: post #2

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

Very nice. If it had a key handler to collapse the current comment with all replies[1], then I think it would be heaven. (Helps with long tangent threads at the top of the comment page.) I know, this should be a pull request... Edit: BTW, I just saw '(-1 unread)' which I'm guessing has something to do with showdead being on. [1] http://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-...

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 11:42 PM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #2

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 11:48 PM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #2

I created this based on how difficult I found it to be to follow conversations here, especially long ones. It's always been fairly easy to keep track of replies to your own comments, but if you haven't commented in a thread or subthread, you're basically stuck counting timestamps. Since I've gotten it working it's made the browsing experience better. Please report any issues here or on github.