On 4/21/23 20:44, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 07:39:17PM +0200, Jaroslav Prokop wrote:
>>> I am, luckily, not paid to read forums
>>> with no threading. IMO, a stream of posts with mentions of previous
>>> posts is not threading. Threading begins and ends
>>> on new topic posts AFAICT on discourse.
>> It's not presented as a tree, but there _are_ threads of replies.
> Heh, sounds like a fun side project to try to transform it into a
> tree structure.
If you want to make Jonathan Corbet happy, make that tree structure be then
served via NNTP. :)
Sounds like a challenge! I'll put it on my personal project
backlog ;)
>>
Example:https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/future-of-encryption-in-fe...
> Finally, noticed what it does, it made me a bit confused as the
> first response was the same as in the "global" flow of the topic,
> but the message under it changed. I think that it should be better
> visible that they are actually replies.
>
> It seems to hide other replies and only show those that are part of
> the "thread". Do they accept RFEs? :)
They do -- post
athttps://meta.discourse.org/.
> I think enhancing the visibility after I expand replies for the
> posts in the "thread" would be better.
This particular thing could possibly be done via a theme component (see
https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-theme-component-category/232731),
which is a kind of lightweight plugin for the client-side. (These are very
easy to install into a given site, unlike weightier server-side plugins.)
Or maybe even just some CSS. What exactly did you have in mind?
I think it is a bug
in UI/UX. I click "replies", I see *something*
changed in the layout, but I have trouble identifying what exactly.
Visually, if there are more than 2 or even 1 reply, then I just see with
peripheral vision something had changed,
but when I look closer I have trouble seeing a difference, IOW, I have
trouble identifying what I did when I clicked the button.
Either moving the replies a bit to a side or maybe adding something more
visual, like a blue stripe on the threaded replies would be helpful IMO.
I can play around with the plugin, see what feels how, and come back to
Discourse with suggestions, thanks for the resources!
(Firstly I'll have to confirm with a more "vanilla" install, to see if
the problem might be my default dark mode environment Discourse switched
into, that's a problem for monday me though :) )
Regards,
Jarek