There used to be a reply from PDV here, leading to a long subthread with some strong anti-circling sentiment (from me too). Now LW2.0 doesn’t show it anymore, but it’s still visible on GW. Is this how the new mod tools work?
I’m pretty sure this is because of the way LW2.0 only displays a limited number of comments at a time—the lowest-karma comments, along with their replies, simply disappear without any indication that they need to be manually loaded in order to be seen.
Yeah, the comment and subthread are still here, you just have to press “load more” at the top. I too thought that the comment had been deleted at first, until I remembered that wait, this thread has a lot of comments, maybe all of them are just not showing.
Since your comment, Oli+Ray have done some backend improvements, and now the number of auto-lodaded comments is 200, so this problem should be gone right now.
One remark: The larger that number is, (1) the less people will be used to seeing threads with some comments not displayed, hence (2) the more likely they are to forget that they are seeing only a partial picture; and also (3) the less it matters if the notice saying some comments haven’t been loaded yet is ugly; so it may be worth making it more prominent.
I guess we could just increase it to 300? That would cover practically all posts, and I think it should be fine on most devices, but it might cause some serious load times on slow connections and slow devices.
My guess it’s better to do that than to have this annoying loading experience, but I should really get around to refactoring our comment system.
There used to be a reply from PDV here, leading to a long subthread with some strong anti-circling sentiment (from me too). Now LW2.0 doesn’t show it anymore, but it’s still visible on GW. Is this how the new mod tools work?
I’m pretty sure this is because of the way LW2.0 only displays a limited number of comments at a time—the lowest-karma comments, along with their replies, simply disappear without any indication that they need to be manually loaded in order to be seen.
Yeah, the comment and subthread are still here, you just have to press “load more” at the top. I too thought that the comment had been deleted at first, until I remembered that wait, this thread has a lot of comments, maybe all of them are just not showing.
Since your comment, Oli+Ray have done some backend improvements, and now the number of auto-lodaded comments is 200, so this problem should be gone right now.
That’s excellent.
One remark: The larger that number is, (1) the less people will be used to seeing threads with some comments not displayed, hence (2) the more likely they are to forget that they are seeing only a partial picture; and also (3) the less it matters if the notice saying some comments haven’t been loaded yet is ugly; so it may be worth making it more prominent.
Guys, we are over 200 comments right now. ….
I guess we could just increase it to 300? That would cover practically all posts, and I think it should be fine on most devices, but it might cause some serious load times on slow connections and slow devices.
My guess it’s better to do that than to have this annoying loading experience, but I should really get around to refactoring our comment system.
Yeah, it seems like we’re making the experience worse in some actual cases, in exchange for making it better in other hypothetical cases.
If whenever we hit a limit we increase it, why even have the limit!?