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flex3r / DankChat

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Reddit-like threading for replies #707

Open brian6932 opened 3 months ago

brian6932 commented 3 months ago

Currently, when you send a reply within a thread, it replies to the last message in the thread. This isn't really an expected behavior, as there's no way to see which PRIVMSGs you and others replied to, without leaving the thread, and looking at the PRIVMSGs within the tab itself. Now if there was reply indenting, it would be much more obvious. I completely understand if this is out of scope, but I do think it'd be a large UX improvement.

flex3r commented 3 months ago

Sounds interesting, how does the website handle it currently?

brian6932 commented 3 months ago

Doesn't, but the reply thread doesn't take the full page, so you don't lose out on (current-view) context.

flex3r commented 3 months ago

With context you mean other messages not part of the thread? Or is the current reply thread actually missing messages? It should still contain all thread messages part of the root message, regardless what message was replied to, right? Just making sure I understand the issue correctly

brian6932 commented 3 months ago

Yea it's not missing messages, but since it's a full page, you don't really see who replied to who within a given thread, without backing out of the thread to go back to the tab.

flex3r commented 3 months ago

Ahhh, now I got it image