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The slashcode repository for SoylentNews. The initial code base was uploaded as it appeared on Sourceforge as of the last commit in September 2009
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Comment page reply button wrong action #426

Closed Open4D closed 9 years ago

Open4D commented 9 years ago

Currently I am looking at this page for comment 157236.

The page doesn't just show the text of comment 157236. It also shows the text of the submitted story (which is "sid=6515" I presume).

In between those two passages of text it has the following: Threshold/Breakthrough: -1:15 comments 0: 15 comments Improved Threaded Save: Change Reply

I click on that "Reply" button, expecting it to let me create a top level reply against the submitted story, but instead it seems to be the same as clicking on the "Reply to This" button further down.

TheMightyBuzzard commented 9 years ago

Yep, sure enough. Thanks for the report.

Open4D commented 9 years ago

Thank you Out of interest, is there such a thing as a single-comment page that does not also have the text of the submitted story? e.g. like on Slashdot

TheMightyBuzzard commented 9 years ago

Not anymore, took me a little while but I found them all and put the stories on top. Is that something you actually want?

Open4D commented 9 years ago

Yes, it is.

On all single-comment webpages, there obviously needs to be at least a hyperlink back to the associated story. But generally that's all I want, not the full text of the story.

The Comment 157236 page now consists of the text of comment 157236 'hidden' amongst the majority of text that is not comment 157236.

Now, it is useful to have that 'full fat' approach as an option, but I'd also like to have the choice of linking to a comment page with as little else as possible - not the text of the original story, nor the text of any replies. And if I did have the choice, I think I would mostly go for the latter - the minimalist approach.

In mitigation, I've just discovered I can add an anchor link to comment page URLs, like so. Maybe that should be done officially, everywhere that SN links to the 'full fat' version of a single-comment webpage?

Of course, I might be in a minority of 1 with the above opinions. And even if I'm not, that still doesn't mean these feature request(s) should be a priority now, or ever. If you think it may be worth me raising new issue(s) for them, please let me know.

paulej72 commented 9 years ago

This issue was moved to SoylentNews/rehash#154