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So yeah, I agree with you in principle that the navigation problem is easier to address, but I'm not really happy with reddit's solution of collapsing threads.

by akamaka 11y ago

So yeah, I agree with you in principle that the navigation problem is easier to address, but I'm not really happy with reddit's solution of collapsing threads. It kind of stinks, because you might be halfway into a thread when you decide to collapse it, and then you have to scroll back up and try to figure out which nesting level you were at, and so on. I use the thread collapse feature on reddit frequently, but I also hate it just enough to not want to see it copied here. I was originally going to suggest some alternatives, but thinking about this made me conclude that this is an unsolved UX problem and I don't know the answer.

studentrob 11y ago
Ohhh I see what you're saying. I think I have an idea here! Color code the indentation space of comments and make them click able to collapse them. Then as you're reading, you just remember in your head you are reading about "red" right now, and "blue" is sort of interesting but at some point you decide to collapse the current blue in order to skip to the next comment at the blue level. No scrolling required. Make sense?