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To be honest, I didn't know you could collapse comments. Since there's not a way to "discover" it in the UI, I figured that it didn't exist. While I'm not sure

To be honest, I didn't know you could collapse comments. Since there's not a way to "discover" it in the UI, I figured that it didn't exist. While I'm not sure of the implementation, I think it would be a benefit to the end users to show off that feature better in the UI.

lobster_johnson 11y ago
To be fair, swiping is fairly common in iOS apps. Mail and Reeder come to mind. When I try out a new app I usually test to see if UI elements support gestures like these. Showing some kind of button defeats the utility somewhat, and I think a help pane explaining available gestures would be a better solution. You could stick it in the preferences view.
- alexggordon 11y ago
  I agree with you that we've trained users to expect UITableView Cells to be swipeable, yet I'd argue that the comments on MiniHack don't fit into a "standard" UI for cells (they don't look like a table view cell from Mail and Reeder, especially since a cell can take up more than a screen of height). As such, I wouldn't expect my users to know to swipe them. I do agree that a help pane would do the trick, but personally I would probably lean towards an AlienBlue type of indication that the "cell" is actionable (the triangle showing Compressed or Uncompressed, and a row of icons that appears when you tap the cell, instead of the popup from the bottom). That said, a JazzHands[0] type tutorial would serve perfectly fine too! [0] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands
spdustin 11y ago
How do you reply to comments? When I do it, (by tapping) I see various options, including "collapse to root". The swiping thing mentioned by one of my sibling comments was new to me, though. Handy.
- alexggordon 11y ago
  You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like. [0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1
  - spdustin 11y ago
    From my profile -> comments page, yes, and that's a regression -- it used to include a link back to the post's full comments feed. But from the full comment feed for a post, I have options for upvote, reply, profile, and collapse to root.
    - alexggordon 11y ago
      Gotchya. I was tapping the root comment, and not a child comment. I'm surprised there isn't a "collapse" button when tapping the root comment. Usually I don't reply or comment to HN on my phone, which is probably why I hadn't seen it before.

lobster_johnson 11y ago

To be fair, swiping is fairly common in iOS apps. Mail and Reeder come to mind. When I try out a new app I usually test to see if UI elements support gestures like these. Showing some kind of button defeats the utility somewhat, and I think a help pane explaining available gestures would be a better solution. You could stick it in the preferences view.

alexggordon 11y ago
I agree with you that we've trained users to expect UITableView Cells to be swipeable, yet I'd argue that the comments on MiniHack don't fit into a "standard" UI for cells (they don't look like a table view cell from Mail and Reeder, especially since a cell can take up more than a screen of height). As such, I wouldn't expect my users to know to swipe them. I do agree that a help pane would do the trick, but personally I would probably lean towards an AlienBlue type of indication that the "cell" is actionable (the triangle showing Compressed or Uncompressed, and a row of icons that appears when you tap the cell, instead of the popup from the bottom). That said, a JazzHands[0] type tutorial would serve perfectly fine too! [0] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands

spdustin 11y ago

How do you reply to comments? When I do it, (by tapping) I see various options, including "collapse to root". The swiping thing mentioned by one of my sibling comments was new to me, though. Handy.

alexggordon 11y ago
You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like. [0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1
- spdustin 11y ago
  From my profile -> comments page, yes, and that's a regression -- it used to include a link back to the post's full comments feed. But from the full comment feed for a post, I have options for upvote, reply, profile, and collapse to root.
  - alexggordon 11y ago
    Gotchya. I was tapping the root comment, and not a child comment. I'm surprised there isn't a "collapse" button when tapping the root comment. Usually I don't reply or comment to HN on my phone, which is probably why I hadn't seen it before.