Links on user pages and on “Recent Comments” lead to individual comments, without any context in which the comment is made. At least the whole thread should be shown, starting from the top-level comment, otherwise comments that reply to other comments fail to make any sense. For example click here.
I don’t know about showing the whole thread, but showing just the immediate parent would be an improvement.
Or rather, clicking a comment should just jump to that comment in the thread. But if we have a page of recent comments a la Hacker News, then showing the immediate parent of each parented comment would make that recent comments page pretty effective as an overview of current discussion on LW, I think.
Comments that are in reply to another comment have a parent link that you can click to get some context. A comment at the top level is assumed to be in the context of the post, which is shown. However you aren’t the first one to suggest that the whole thread be shown as the default view for a comment permalink. It will be considered.
Better than showing the whole thread would be showing the whole post with all threads, but automatically jumping to the comment’s location in the list of all threads.
OK. A little bug with “parent” link: it doesn’t have bookmark part if parent comment is not presently on the current page. For example, if I open this page, the Parent link leads to this page, without focusing on specific comment. However, when I click on the same Parent link of the child comment on the Parent page, the link is now this one, with bookmark to the parent comment.
Links on user pages and on “Recent Comments” lead to individual comments, without any context in which the comment is made. At least the whole thread should be shown, starting from the top-level comment, otherwise comments that reply to other comments fail to make any sense. For example click here.
I don’t know about showing the whole thread, but showing just the immediate parent would be an improvement.
Or rather, clicking a comment should just jump to that comment in the thread. But if we have a page of recent comments a la Hacker News, then showing the immediate parent of each parented comment would make that recent comments page pretty effective as an overview of current discussion on LW, I think.
Comments that are in reply to another comment have a parent link that you can click to get some context. A comment at the top level is assumed to be in the context of the post, which is shown. However you aren’t the first one to suggest that the whole thread be shown as the default view for a comment permalink. It will be considered.
Better than showing the whole thread would be showing the whole post with all threads, but automatically jumping to the comment’s location in the list of all threads.
OK. A little bug with “parent” link: it doesn’t have bookmark part if parent comment is not presently on the current page. For example, if I open this page, the Parent link leads to this page, without focusing on specific comment. However, when I click on the same Parent link of the child comment on the Parent page, the link is now this one, with bookmark to the parent comment.
Ahh the anchor is missing. I’ll note it as a bug. #116