15 votes

Make clicking on the indent line collapse comments to that level

Posted by KernelPanic
Tags: suggestions, ui

Whilst I am no fan of reddit's redesign, one of the features I liked about it was the way you could click on a indent line to collapse the child comments at that level. Whilst tildes displays these indent lines, clicking on them does nothing, and you have to scroll up to get to the collapse button. Another possible solution would be to collapse comments under the cursor when a hotkey is pressed, although this could be awkward due to both mouse and keyboard being used.

7 comments

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    1. cfabbro
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      You beat me by 20s. :P

      You beat me by 20s. :P

      6 votes
    2. [4]
      Exalt
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      Or keep the border and add a click event to a spacer element instead of having a margin on the children.

      Or keep the border and add a click event to a spacer element instead of having a margin on the children.

      3 votes
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        KernelPanic
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        Whilst this would work well in mobile, on desktop horizontal space is cheaper than vertical space imo

        Whilst this would work well in mobile, on desktop horizontal space is cheaper than vertical space imo

        1 vote
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          Exalt
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          I'm not sure I see the relevance. There is already a vertical space, it's just that it's currently created with a CSS margin instead of a spacer.

          I'm not sure I see the relevance. There is already a vertical space, it's just that it's currently created with a CSS margin instead of a spacer.

          1. KernelPanic
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            Sorry, rereading my comment made me realise that I got vertical and horizontal the wrong war around.

            Sorry, rereading my comment made me realise that I got vertical and horizontal the wrong war around.

            2 votes
  2. nsz
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    Kind of piggybacking, it would be nice if it was possible to mark a comment, by click the title bar or something, so when you scroll down it's indent line is highlighted, like the new comments are...

    Kind of piggybacking, it would be nice if it was possible to mark a comment, by click the title bar or something, so when you scroll down it's indent line is highlighted, like the new comments are orange and op is white, make it so if you click on a comment the line goes red or something, makes it easier to track conversations that have lots of comments.

    4 votes