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A bug with collapsed views, and some thinking aloud

Steps to reproduce:

a) View a forum topic in a collapsed view, say collapsed threaded.
b) Click on a comment.

A page pops up that looks like the reply page, but it's different. Posting a comment there doesn't reply to the comment you're seeing.

This is the reason for this empty comment of mine. I couldn't see any way to delete the comment after I'd moved it to the right place.

Perhaps it would be less confusing if the form on a comment url replied to that url? That's what HN does. Or we could follow reddit and get rid of that form altogether.

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I've been bouncing around between views as a way to make sure I don't miss any comments. What do others do? Does everyone use the global track page? It seems unsatisfying for some reason (partly I keep forgetting it exists). And the asterisks feel unreliable because I'm afraid I navigated away without reading all of them.