Comment on Vier Facelift? Before I started work on BookLook the plan was to just create
randompenguin@dillyofapickle.com 5 days agoI retracted my PR for this. It won't be in the next release of Friendica. It conflicts with the existing "Compact Conversation View" feature which hides all other comments except your own interactions with a post author (or something like that), where mine literally hides ALL comments under the post and requires you to click the post to read it on a separate page that shows all the comments.
There were questions of whether there is demand for a feature to make Friendica feeds work the same way as Bluesky and Mastodon? And whether being able to write a comment to a post in the feed, but _not_ see it get added under the post in the feed is too confusing, and whether commenting in the feed should be completely disabled, or on submission should it take you to that post's single page where you _can_ see your comment? Which will take a little more work to figure out to make it do that.
So I'll probably do a post/poll on that question and if there's enough interest I'll resubmit the PR for the _next_ version. We can probably put both options in a dropdown so you can't enable both of them at the same time.
leanderlindahl@friendica-sverige.se 4 days ago
@randompenguin I'm curious to see and understand what that compact view does. I liked the sound of what your suggestion did.
Thats a major thing i struggle with in Friendica (mobile first, bookface), that a single post with comments take up several screens of scrolling and then you give up and switch back to mastodon.
Another thing i struggle with is – it seems you dont get notified when someone interacts with your posts (likes, replies). You find out by accident or not at all.
randompenguin@dillyofapickle.com 4 days ago
@leanderlindahl
Did you ever change this setting?
randompenguin@dillyofapickle.com 4 days ago
@leanderlindahl "Compact Conversation View" was explained to me as only displaying comments that are:
My proposal won't even show those. It hides all replies in feeds. Mine also makes the post body into a clickable link to the single post display page (which shows all the replies regardless of either setting).
leanderlindahl@friendica-sverige.se 4 days ago
@randompenguin I saw some dismissing sweeping opinions about compact view should not be too similar to Mastodon. Why not?
But without having thought it through properly, i'd venture saying you want the original post, potentially abbreviated, and then the most recent reply.