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Improved Collapsible Comments - Script that lets you collapse replies by clicking a line to the side of each comment (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by artillect@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Download it from greasyfork

This userscript for kbin enhances the comment section adjusting the layout and adding a line to the left of each comment and its replies that lets you collapse them. The design is inspired by some custom subreddit stylesheets, and new reddit surprisingly enough (you know what they say about broken clocks).

Personally, I think this is the best way to handle collapsing comments here's a screenshot.

A video of it in action

If you don't have a userscript manager extension installed, you can install Tampermonkey, and then open the greasyfork link above.

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[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love this, it works great and adds clarity to the comments! I'm using it in conjuction with @SirPsychoMantis's user script, and the two are happily coexisting together. There's some visual bugs due to the two having the same function but appending additional characters in different places, but it's working fine.

EDIT: So on mobile, it kinda breaks. See here.

[–] artillect@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just released an update with a bunch of improvements for mobile, now you can collapse comments by tapping anywhere on them! (It shouldn't interfere with any of the buttons aside from the language dropdown, but let me know if it does)

[–] Saltcracker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey I just got your script and the above mentioned user script, and I noticed you put your settings into the drop down menu, when you could just do it like the other script and put it where the cogwheel is for theme. I think you should maybe change it to there, since I had to go through your code to see if you even had settings.

[–] artillect@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great idea, but the main issue with that is that it isn't compatible with mobile Safari. I'll figure out some way to make it clearer

Edit: I misunderstood what you said, I could put it there, but I plan on releasing the config page I'm working on as a library that anyone can use in their scripts to easily add a config

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently using on mobile, the larger touch area for collapsing/uncollapsing works great in practice. I also see the modified scaling, and for the most part it's well done!

Although I can still force it to cut off some text if I find a discussion that goes deep enough. Not a huge issue though.

https://i.imgur.com/cvLr6fI.jpg

EDIT: I noticed that as a consequence of making the collapse activate on one click, highlighting portions of the comment (for example if you want to quote it) is now difficult. On desktop, you have to hold the mouse click then press Ctrl + C, otherwise if you let go of the click and collapse the comment, nothing is captured to the clipboard.

On Android though, since a tap and hold action on a word makes the context menu pop up, this doesn't happen, you can select the phrase you want to copy without the comment collapsing.

I'll probably keep using this on mobile, and use the other script for desktop.

[–] artillect@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just released another update, you should be able to highlight text without the comment collapsing for now. I've also added an option to toggle collapsing comments by clicking anywhere on them, you can access it by clicking your username in the top right, then go to "Userscript Settings" and the option should be there

[–] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate the work you're putting in! The latest version no longer gets text cut off on the right side. However now the longer comments no longer get that expand option.

https://i.imgur.com/fWLVAt9.jpg

[–] artillect@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Try updating to 1.3.5, it should be back!

[–] thesoloist@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@artillect well done. works perfect on my end. hopefully this is implemented into the offical kbin site

[–] artillect@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! I've made a comment about it on the codeberg repository, I hope @ernest likes it

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