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Two questions about / issues with Kbin UI regarding expanding and collapsing comments. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There's two very annoying user interface elements that prevent me from getting comfortable with KBin. I'm not sure if these are settings, or bugs on my browser, or what.

One: Every top-level comment in every thread is showing an expand button that hides a lot of the text. So it's not really possible to read a lot of comments without going through an entire post and selecting this button on every comment. I understand this is useful for very long comments but it's hiding comments that are only one line of text. Screenshot linked below because the image attachment element disappears when I stop hovering over it.

Two: On Reddit and Lemmy, there's a button in the interface to collapse a thread and its replies. I'm not seeing that in Kbin.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What browser are you using, and are you on mobile or desktop? I tried all sorts of configurations for different things like sticky navbar, infinite scroll, top bar, compact view, but I could not repro that duplicated expand bar for posts :\

There's been some talk about collapsible comments https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/306 while it isn't supported currently, if you are using a device that allows plugins you could try KES https://kbin.social/m/enhancement/t/216222 which can add that as an option

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

MacOS Safari v16.5.1. That would be a little weird if there were an element only appearing in one / some web browsers.