Is there a setting that might resolve the issue attached, where really long comment threads get squished into illegibility?

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We should start a ridiculously long comment thread here so people can see how the various Lemmy apps out there handle and render things…

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      5 months ago

      Lol, well, I’ll keep the ball rolling with this reply.

      It took me a while to notice this behavior (on any client) because once a comment thread gets that deep, it’s usually a slap fight I wouldn’t bother reading anyway lol

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        5 months ago

        i’m tempted to make a stupid feature where it turns into an ace attorney fight after about 15 comments of depth.

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            5 months ago

            How could I fight with the truth? Gonna need a different argument.

            • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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              5 months ago

              @!ptz@dubvee.org

              After stopping the scroll, animate to minus padding on the left (move tree to the left in its entirety).

              Or animate the margin between these comments to 0 until the end of the comments for the thread

              Or just stop at some percentage of screen estate and work with differing colors.

              Maybe you could use folds right above and below to indicate that the tree is rerooted?

              Spittballing back. Learned a word today!

                • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  5 months ago

                  Nope. Way more hacky on the web.

                  On mobile it would be encapsulated and invoked on demand, easily supporting 300hz+ :).

                  At least I assume it; But I have my very limited experience on web development. Even if there would be an easy way due to javascript/browser compatibility it should be very cumberstone.

                  Though if we had a LISP-like language (Scheme) like initially intended we wouldn’t have to worry. Idk who to blame.

                  Someone wanted restrictions and this may have been a valid point.

                  I can’t judge but for mobile.