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

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I can’t think of a solution that isn’t re-rooting in one form or another. Do you know of any app that has done it differently?

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Not off my head, no. Which is why I was asking if there were any other alternatives. I don’t particularly like that solution.

      Edit: Since I know the depth on a per-comment basis, maybe I could reverse it in CSS beyond a certain point and have them start going right to left? (spitballing here)

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        How about this: as you scroll past an entire comment in the chain (the bottom of the comment leaves the top of the screen) the entire comment chain is shifted to the left?

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 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.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 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

          • Xylight (Photon Dev)English
            5·
            3 months ago

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

                • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  4·
                  3 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!