Feature Request: Allow users to make their comments display as collapsed-past-a-certain-point by default.
Why? Sometimes I want to post a long comment, but feel that itās not one that everyone needs to see/āread. Iād happily post the comment if I could write a summary of what itās about at the top and have the rest hidden/ācollapsed-by-default, but without this ability Iām often reluctant to post the comment. This is especially true when there are many comments on a post (or when I expect there will be), since I donāt want the experience of other users who are scrolling through the comment section to scan it to have to see the large body of a comment that is just taking up space. Itād be much easier to navigate the comments if long-comments were mostly collapsed, and I think giving users the ability to decide exactly when their long comments collapse would be even better.
This is an interesting idea! Iāll keep it in mind as something to potentially implement later (I havenāt discussed this with folks on the tech side yet).
I will say that I think you may be underestimating the value of your long comments relative to the inconvenience of scrolling past them. Every comment comes with a ācollapseā button that people can use, and Iād hope that anyone annoyed by scrolling will learn to use it, though I canāt be sure of how often this happens.
Feature Request: Allow users to make their comments display as collapsed-past-a-certain-point by default.
Why? Sometimes I want to post a long comment, but feel that itās not one that everyone needs to see/āread. Iād happily post the comment if I could write a summary of what itās about at the top and have the rest hidden/ācollapsed-by-default, but without this ability Iām often reluctant to post the comment. This is especially true when there are many comments on a post (or when I expect there will be), since I donāt want the experience of other users who are scrolling through the comment section to scan it to have to see the large body of a comment that is just taking up space. Itād be much easier to navigate the comments if long-comments were mostly collapsed, and I think giving users the ability to decide exactly when their long comments collapse would be even better.
This is an interesting idea! Iāll keep it in mind as something to potentially implement later (I havenāt discussed this with folks on the tech side yet).
I will say that I think you may be underestimating the value of your long comments relative to the inconvenience of scrolling past them. Every comment comes with a ācollapseā button that people can use, and Iād hope that anyone annoyed by scrolling will learn to use it, though I canāt be sure of how often this happens.