6 votes

Anchor text at the top to reply without scrolling?

Posted by RodneyRodnesson (edited )
Tags: ask.help, ux, comments

Edit — thanks to all who replied and educated me on this. I thought I'd do this rather than pollute the thread with single thank you posts while I learn the ropes here.

Hi,

I'm brand new here so this could well be answered and I'm just being stupid. Very probable tbh!

I'm on a macbook and iphone and one thing I noticed was it's a bit of a trek scrolling down to comment. Not that I've done that much.

Now I love, really love, the lightweight and speedy nature of this site (and incidentally looking forward to brushing up on my Markdown) and am hoping that with the influx feature bloat doesn't happen but would a small anchor text link somewhere up top be in order to quickly get to the comment field?

Let me know how idiotic I am and why or.. if I'm lucky.. how much of a genius I am!

Thanks,

Rodney

4 comments

  1. Wes
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    It's a common question by new users, but the comment box being at the bottom of the page is by design. Adding a link to jump down would likely circumvent this design. Rather than rephrase it, I'll...

    It's a common question by new users, but the comment box being at the bottom of the page is by design. Adding a link to jump down would likely circumvent this design. Rather than rephrase it, I'll link the docs which offer a good explanation.

    https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy/site-design#the-comment-box

    And by the way, welcome to the site!

    39 votes
  2. freestylesno
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    If I recall correctly this is intentional to encourage you to read the thread before posting yourself.

    If I recall correctly this is intentional to encourage you to read the thread before posting yourself.

    16 votes
  3. [2]
    g33kphr33k
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    As the others have said, but I'll echo, it's to get you to read all the comments so you don't double up unnecessarily, like I'm doing now, on purpose. It's a great feature, however, the ache is...

    As the others have said, but I'll echo, it's to get you to read all the comments so you don't double up unnecessarily, like I'm doing now, on purpose.

    It's a great feature, however, the ache is when you want to reread the OP and you are replying so you have to scroll back and forth to remember exactly what it was you were replying about. At that point, I wish the OP would appear next to the comment box for easy reread.

    11 votes
    1. Ember
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      That was one of my favorite features of Apollo, when you’d open the comment/reply dialogue, the parent comment or post would be visible and scrollable in the background. As much as Tildes is a...

      That was one of my favorite features of Apollo, when you’d open the comment/reply dialogue, the parent comment or post would be visible and scrollable in the background.

      As much as Tildes is a usable, clean site on mobile… there’s something to be said for a dynamic mobile-first layout with touch targets made for fingers instead of hyperlinks for mouses. I miss all the reachability and swipe gestures that made Apollo so great.

      3 votes