[USABILITY] Eliminate Infinite Nesting of Group Replies

[jake-fava]

When a user replies to a reply on a post, their “sub-reply” creates a new thread underneath the reply. This can be repeated a seemingly infinite number of times, creating “sub-sub-replies”, “sub-sub-sub-replies”, and so on, creating an “infinitely-nested” web of replies. (See image 1)

To reproduce:

1. Create a post in any Group
2. Create a reply to that post
3. Reply to the reply on that post (creating a “sub-reply”)
4. See how multiple panels are created in the app for numerous replies to a single post (image 1)

Please make ALL replies (eliminating sub-replies, sub-sub replies, etc.) to a post appear in a single panel in chronological order with the oldest reply at the top and the most recent at the bottom. (See image 2)

Related to ticket #2938 - whenever a user taps on a notification for a reply, the app should display this single panel (image 2) with the original post at the top.

v 5.1.34

@vburgett

Image 1:

Image 2:

[vburgett]

Adding on:

All replies are still possible. They just show up in the same panel under the original post like Jake’s screenshot.

[TodorBachvarov]

In order to prevent user from creating sub-reply, I've removed the "Reply" from the ReplyCard options and disabled the reply card taping. In this way the user won't be able to create new sub-replies and all newly created replies will appear below the original post. The old sub-replies will remain as they were before. Changed in version 5.2.10.

[jake-fava]

Thanks for your work on this, @TodorBachvarov! Just one change still needs to be made:

"whenever a user taps on a notification for a reply, the app should display this single panel with the original post at the top" - currently, tapping on a reply notification takes me to a new panel for that reply where I am able to create a sub-reply (image 3); you can see this reply has a sub-reply because it has "1 reply" (image 4)

cc: @vburgett

Edited: to remove redundant request with #4081

[TodorBachvarov]

This will require a groups BB change. I've created this issue: https://github.com/rokwire/groups-building-block/issues/468. When it's done I'll implement the following change: Whenever a user taps on a notification for a reply, the app will display a single panel with the original post at the top and all post replies below (the latest reply will be at the bottom). @jake-fava @vburgett Could you confirm that this is the desired behaviour?

[vburgett]

That is accurate. Thank you, @TodorBachvarov.

[TodorBachvarov]

Done in version 6.0.10

[vburgett]

Confirming as fixed in 6.0.12. @jake-fava if you agree, please close this ticket.

[jake-fava]

Confirmed working in 6.0.14 as well - thanks, y'all!