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 it’s not one that everyone needs to see/read. I’d happily post the comment if I could write a summary of what it’s about at the top and have the rest hidden/collapsed-by-default, but without this ability I’m 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 don’t 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. It’d 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! I’ll keep it in mind as something to potentially implement later (I haven’t 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 “collapse” button that people can use, and I’d hope that anyone annoyed by scrolling will learn to use it, though I can’t 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 it’s not one that everyone needs to see/read. I’d happily post the comment if I could write a summary of what it’s about at the top and have the rest hidden/collapsed-by-default, but without this ability I’m 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 don’t 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. It’d 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! I’ll keep it in mind as something to potentially implement later (I haven’t 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 “collapse” button that people can use, and I’d hope that anyone annoyed by scrolling will learn to use it, though I can’t be sure of how often this happens.