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too much indentation solution?

e.g. one of the pages about OO has an interesting discussion that becomes ever harder to read with the default ui template. any way of having a default template that somehow avoids that problem yet still shows threading?

By raould at 2008-03-28 00:01 | Site Discussion | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 7036 reads

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Visual hints and chaining

Not increasing the indentation level when there is only one reply to a comment would help a lot. This requires some visual indication (lines, arrows, colours etc) to distinguish chained comments from siblings. This also makes sense because people think of a chain of comments as a sequence, not a hierarchy.

Visual hints can also aid readability in other ways but they must be applied with care (and taste).

Limiting line widths would also improve readability. Right now, moderately-indented comments are actually easier to read than their ancestors.

By Mattias Engdeg at Fri, 2008-03-28 10:35 | login or register to post comments

Suggestion: Click title to open a new page

A short-term fix may be to start again from the left when indentation reaches, say 50% of the column width.

Another idea would be to click on the title of a post (quite useless link at the moment) to open a new page with this post and all its descendants.

By Denis Bredelet -jido at Fri, 2008-03-28 15:08 | login or register to post comments

Reddit's continuations

Reddit provides a "continuation" link once a thread nests past a threshold. A continuation sounds appropriate for LTU! ;-)

By naasking at Fri, 2008-03-28 16:42 | login or register to post comments

I'd just like to second this

I'd just like to second this as it's the best solution I've come across.

By John Nowak at Fri, 2008-03-28 20:54 | login or register to post comments

This is one of the issues

This is one of the issues that come up from time to time and for which no good solution was found yet. Thanks for the ideas, we'll see what can be done.

By Ehud Lamm at Fri, 2008-03-28 16:54 | login or register to post comments