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Comment collapsing is a useful feature. The problem with giving the largest weight to the most upvoted comment is it also gives a large weight to all replies (u
by ChrisSD 7y ago
Comment collapsing is a useful feature. The problem with giving the largest weight to the most upvoted comment is it also gives a large weight to all replies (unless they're heavily downvoted). It's useful to be able to skip those replies once they get less interesting.
However, this does lead to yo-yoing: reading comments downwards, going back up to find the right collapse button then reading down again. It'd be useful to have a more direct "fast forward" button. Though admittedly I haven't thought this through in terms of UI design.
- JFFalcon 7y agoThe new Reddit desktop site has a good solution for that - each comment draws a bar down the side of its children, which you can click on to collapse the paarent. You collapse any level of parent comment without havign to scroll back up.