Would it be possible to improve the appearance/delineation of nested quotes in comments? Here in a Github pull request, it’s fairly obvious how “deep” a quote is due to contrast between the “quote block” line on the left and the background fill color behind it and the quoted text:
This is a quote.
This is a nested quote.
This is a nested, nested quote.
Returning to the nested quote.
Returning to the original quote.
If one does this with the bbcode on FimFiction, however, one winds up with a single gray rounded rectangle with the quotes only delineated by indentation and paragraph spacing. For example,
[quote]This is a quote.[quote]This is a nested quote.[quote]This is a nested, nested quote.[/quote]Returning to the nested quote.[/quote]Returning to the original quote.[/quote]
Results in:
This can make it difficult to track who is saying what in a set of quotes with the nesting going in and out, not to mention if paragraph formatting is added within a quote that adds additional indentation. The simplest thing I can think of would be to add an outline to the quote box that’s the same color as the comment background so that it’s clear how one quote is nested inside another, similar to the way FimFiction renders referenced quotes:
(Insert roughly edited screenshot here)
Is this something that could be done? I suspect most people aren’t bothered by the status quo, but more than once I’ve run into this during several responses in a long comment chain.
Would it be possible to improve the appearance/delineation of nested quotes in comments? Here in a Github pull request, it’s fairly obvious how “deep” a quote is due to contrast between the “quote block” line on the left and the background fill color behind it and the quoted text:
[quote]This is a quote.[quote]This is a nested quote.[quote]This is a nested, nested quote.[/quote]Returning to the nested quote.[/quote]Returning to the original quote.[/quote]Results in:
This can make it difficult to track who is saying what in a set of quotes with the nesting going in and out, not to mention if paragraph formatting is added within a quote that adds additional indentation. The simplest thing I can think of would be to add an outline to the quote box that’s the same color as the comment background so that it’s clear how one quote is nested inside another, similar to the way FimFiction renders referenced quotes:
(Insert roughly edited screenshot here)
Is this something that could be done? I suspect most people aren’t bothered by the status quo, but more than once I’ve run into this during several responses in a long comment chain.