Voyager 1.22.0: View deeply nested comments

Version 1.22.0 was just released with support for viewing deeply nested comments.

This feature is SUPER cool and something I've wanted to do for a while (despite not making a Github issue for it). I can only take credit for the code though, because the design is inspired from Apollo.

There's two parts to the experience to viewing deeply nested comments:

Load parent comments

Example

When you're viewing a link to a single comment and the comment is nested greater than three layers, you will see a "Load parent comments" button:

When you tap it, you can continue to load parent comments, all the way back to the root comment. And what's cool about it is since you're viewing a single comment chain, we can take advantage of that and forgo the indentation:

Even though the parent chain isn't indented for a given comment, the comments still have their unique nesting colors!

Continue Thread

When comments get too nested for a single page, you'll see a "Continue Thread" button:

Tapping that brings you to a new page to continue viewing the thread (notice page title is "Thread" and initial comment is highlighted):

You can keep doing this over and over again for very deeply nested conversations, to the bitter end!

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74 Comments

aeharding@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (68 replies)

Nesting test thread!

aeharding@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (67 replies)

How are you going today?

Arcanum@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y (66 replies)

Doing great!

aeharding@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (65 replies)

Excellent!

aeharding@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (64 replies)

How's everyone else? Weekend plans?

Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (63 replies)

Nesting

aeharding@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (62 replies)

It is that time of year...

aeharding@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Wisconsin here, we've only had one cold spell so far right before Halloween.

tillimarleen@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Unfortunately I have a problem with expanding comments recently. If I am on the bottom of a comments page and I expand comments there, they expand up and not down. So I have to scroll up again, to find the beginning of that thread.

aeharding@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Can you provide a link to reproduce next time you see this? Thanks

Edit: Oh, I think I see what you mean. If you are scrolled to the bottom of the page it stays pinned to the bottom of the page. I will have to investigate further!

tillimarleen@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

I think this is a good example:

https://feddit.ch/post/2156843

when I open the last comment thread, the comments get pushed up, and I have to scroll a long time to get back to the original comment

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Happy to have helped ;)

aeharding@l.harding.dev · 1 pts · 2y

very cool! :)