#[0]just a comment: reading through threads and comments is *really* difficult to parse out who is responding to whom.
The little lines on the left and layout of separate threads is both hard to see and not very well distinguished. I'm going to poke around for an example that makes it clearer, but I just wanted to put it on your radar. Its one of the few minor frustrations that has persisted from the beginning of my using Nostrgram.
(curious if anyone else feels this way or if its just me?)
I'm always open to suggestions if people find something difficult.
If i had to just spit out a rough idea of possible alternatives:
• Only "unroll" comments if you had clicked on one deep in the thread, but leave all the threads "closed" at first. ie. only the immediate responses to the OP are visible, not sub responses
• Have a thin "gap block" that says "Unroll Responses" or whatever with an expansion arrow below each comment with an ongoing thread.
• Make the indent a lot more prominent (even at the expense of space for displaying the response
• Maximize the indent at maybe 3-4 deep, and then use dots or slashes before the first word as indication of how much further the response is in the thread? 🤔 (basic idea is after a certain depth, use something else to show derivation, rather than the indent)
• Another simple visual indicator could maybe be the darkness or brightness of the comment background. This could let you leave a thinner indentation, but use the background to visually indicate depth (ie. top comment in "dark mode" is 70% toward black, new response is 75% to black, next depth is 77.5%, next is 78.73% - ah la darkness halvening 😆)
Thanks for the suggestions!
Amethyst quote tweets UI could be inspiration.
Enough indent, different color shade
I like that. I'll see what I can do.
just beware, stacker news had a similar way of indicating. but if the thread got to long, the backgroud was the same color as text and unreadable.
At some point you just need to put in a limit for the color change, maybe max it with a relative measure so its always 30% darker/lighter than whatever the text darkness is (or find some specific minimal difference so the text is always readable)
After like 10 threads deep its hard to come up with any way that it isn't at least a little confusing, lol. At that point maybe we just give up 🤣
Ah, exactly the sort of thing I had in mind! The color & layer matching really does do the trick
My best experience is using nostrgram in the Chrome browser.
Yeah and when you get a comment deep in thread and there are higher level comments above it. It's hard to track Convo.
Can you give an example of what you mean or give a bit more detail? What specifically is making it hard to track? If I can understand it I can improve it. Thanks!
Will take screenshot when I get back to pc
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so when you are in a thread that has lots of comments and you click on a comment.(comment A for our sanity)
it shows like this, and when you scroll up its showing higher level comments before it gets to the comment that comment A responded too
let me know if that makes ANY sense since rereading it myself its confusing. lmao
Yes I get what you're saying and see how that can be confusing. If I put the immediate level replies directly underneath the note they're replying to, that works unless *your* reply gets more replies, in which case the same issue happens further down the thread.
I'm going to try #[2]'s suggestion and see about "collapsing" reply threads with a one-click option to open them up so you can read them all. That way all immediate replies are still visible but you lose the confusion.
