One thing that I find annoying is that when you get down-voted you have no idea why ... If your post is opinionated you can figure out it's a silent "I disagree", yet, without any reasoning. So you learn nothing.
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
The argument against that is that with the collapse button so close to the vote arrow, we would be guaranteed to get misvotes, especially on mobile. The undo vote feature would no doubt help with that some, but only so much.
To be honest I would rather have the vote arrow moved somewhere else. I'm often more interested in collapsing a comment thread than voting. I'm not sure if this is something only I care about though.
Definitely agree, the collapse should now be prefixed and the voting should be moved elsewhere.
This design was the minimum change possible (which has a value, but usually a net negative one).
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#263Would you consider adding custom color settings for the background and font colors? You offer color settings for the top bar, why not for the rest of the site?
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#264I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)
Tested upvote, worked. Tested undo upvote, worked. Tested downvote, worked. My testing is complete.
I followed your testing instructions on your comment. Test passed.
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#265Thank you, these are all fantastic except #4. The problem with the story-hide feature is that some days you may think something is not interesting from the title, but then an hour later there are 100 comments. edit: A solution is not "well then don't use the hide feature" - Because this feature is site-wide, in some cases, that momentum would never occur.
I don't think it will do any harm. If 100 people comment on something I'm not interested in, it's rare indeed that my opinion would change to find it interesting. Granted, all this means is that I'm part of the target demographic for the "hide" feature. I like it. Although it's going to play havoc with my super-advanced self-discipline system, which is the break at the end of page 1!
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#266One feature request: Notification of comment replies.
A new replies counter next to threads would be very nice to have.
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#267Yay! Been waiting for collapsible comments for ever! Thanks!
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#268Looks like there is an unvouch for vouched comments too, or was that there before?
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Collapses persist even if new comments are added underneath them, though the number of comments in the tree (e.g. '[+4]') will update. Comments are submitted, too, though, so the word 'submission' seems oddly ambiguous to me. Also, I doubt I've ever anyone say 'submission' in conversation. People say "story" or "post" and of those two only "story" is unambiguous. (But I'm happy to change it back if people feel strong…
Posts is an interesting alternative. It has the same verb/noun flexibility as comments. But really it is minor, I wondered what 'stories' was but quickly realized it was things that I had submitted. So I think you should keep what ever you feel is best. Given that you know "when" a thread was collapsed and you know when a given comment was added, there is data available to compute "new since you collapsed it" but I r…
I agree with Chuck, by the way. "stories" is much less clear than "submitted". Perhaps in the theme of verbose clarity, "submitted stories" would be a good label?
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to go to the /hidden page. We'll add a link to that from your profile (but it's not there yet). It would be nice if there were a way to do this from the front or newest page themselves but that's kinda inconsistent with hiding the thing.
I notice when I navigate to /hidden there's a link called "hidden" that shows in the header with all the other main links, but it doesn't show anywhere else.
You mean the 'hidden' label in white? That's just there to tell you what page you're on. All pages have it (or should have), whether or not they're normally linked in the top bar.