Topic: Hide Most Comments

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

I wanna be able to set it so I can see like 5 comments and the rest can be opened if I click a button, I only see an option to remove all of them but I wanna be able to see them, there's just so many comments on some posts that it takes forever to reach the bottom information

In the settings there's a comment threshold, the default is -10 (to hide disliked comments) but you should be able to use it to hide comments under a certain positive score (such as, under 30 upvotes) and that would leave you with only a handful of highly rated comments.

You can still use Show All Comments to reveal them all whenever you like.

It took me a minute to figure out what you meant (after a certain threshold showing the first five/five highest rated comments and then a 'show all' button under them right?) but yeah, I agree. Especially on mobile where you have to scroll past the comments to get to the tags and such.

SCTH

Member

That's why on every post there's a tags/info button to skip past the comments. And, right above the tags, an image button to skip back up.

scth said:
That's why on every post there's a tags/info button to skip past the comments. And, right above the tags, an image button to skip back up.

those aren't going to help you when you scroll down past a few dozen comments, and you just get stuck in no-mans land with no anchor links to click on.

regsmutt said:
It took me a minute to figure out what you meant (after a certain threshold showing the first five/five highest rated comments and then a 'show all' button under them right?) but yeah, I agree. Especially on mobile where you have to scroll past the comments to get to the tags and such.

Yes that's what I meant

dba_afish said:
those aren't going to help you when you scroll down past a few dozen comments, and you just get stuck in no-mans land with no anchor links to click on.

At that point just back out and click on the post again lol
Go nuclear

nin10dope said:
At that point just back out and click on the post again lol
Go nuclear

or, alternatively:

/*rework mobile-only page anchor links' appearance, make them sticky*/
.mobile-only { margin-left: 2px; width: fit-content; background-color: var(--color-section); border:2px solid var(--color-section-lighten-5); border-radius: 4px; position:sticky; top: 3rem; z-index: 1; }
a[href^="#image-and-nav"]::before, .mobile-only a[href="#comments"]::after { content: "↑"; }
a[href="#tag-list"]::after { content: "↓"; }
.mobile-only li:last-child::before { content: "|"; margin-right: .8em; color: var(--color-text-muted); }

/*hide anchor links when unnecessary*/
.mobile-only:has(~ menu#post-sections li.active #post-edit-link), menu#post-sections:has(li.active #post-edit-link) ~ .mobile-only, .mobile-only:has(~ section#comments div.list-of-comments > p) li:last-child, section#comments:has(div.list-of-comments > p) ~ .mobile-only { display: none; }