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  1. [5]
    ourari
    Link
    I feel the same. It also frustrates me that it marks other new comments on the page as 'read' even though I'm not checking up on all the comments, but just want to see the context of the reply.

    it's frustrating if I am checking up on a post via the link/parent buttons in my comment history, because I clearly do want to see the comment chain again, so there's no reason for it to be collapsed.

    I feel the same. It also frustrates me that it marks other new comments on the page as 'read' even though I'm not checking up on all the comments, but just want to see the context of the reply.

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    1. [4]
      Deimos
      Link Parent
      Yeah, this happens to me often too. Unfortunately there's not any way to distinguish why you're visiting the comment thread. A couple of things that might help: Maybe the notifications page should...

      Yeah, this happens to me often too. Unfortunately there's not any way to distinguish why you're visiting the comment thread. A couple of things that might help:

      1. Maybe the notifications page should always show your parent comment for each reply in a collapsed state? Alternatively, maybe a button to view the parent without having to visit the thread itself?
      2. There's a merge request open that I need to review that will allow manually changing the "highlight comments since" while you're viewing a thread, so even if you accidentally mark them all read this will allow you to move the highlighting back to an earlier time. It wont' reset the "X new comments" counter or anything, but should be somewhat better.
      5 votes
      1. [3]
        ourari
        Link Parent
        Sounds good. Another solution could be that when checking the replies in your notifications that it has a 'context' link/flag/referrer, specifically for when you click 'link' or 'parent' from the...

        Sounds good.

        Another solution could be that when checking the replies in your notifications that it has a 'context' link/flag/referrer, specifically for when you click 'link' or 'parent' from the notifications page. Or add 'context' to click on. That would tell you the 'why'.

        Just thinking out loud here :)

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        1. [2]
          Deimos
          Link Parent
          It's a little bit different than what you said, but after thinking about it more, I think a lot of this is caused by the fact that Link/Parent are implemented by using anchors (like #comment-1rrp)...

          It's a little bit different than what you said, but after thinking about it more, I think a lot of this is caused by the fact that Link/Parent are implemented by using anchors (like #comment-1rrp) on the standard comments page.

          If they were implemented by having a separate link that goes to a specific comment and its replies (like how reddit implements it), then we can avoid the issues easily by just not collapsing comments or counting it as a visit to the topic when the user's on one of those specific-comment pages instead of the overall one.

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          1. ourari
            Link Parent
            Now that you mention it, I guess part of the frustration we all shared in this topic is that we've apparently come to expect this behavior from using Reddit. It's one of the things they do well....

            Now that you mention it, I guess part of the frustration we all shared in this topic is that we've apparently come to expect this behavior from using Reddit. It's one of the things they do well. No shame in choosing to inherit this advantageous trait from one of your forebears.

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