add setting to make quotes visible by default
b-lov opened this issue · comments
see issue title. would be great to have the option to see all the quotes by default instead of opening them on click or hover.
Hmm.
Technically, it would be very simple.
But conceptually, would it make sense?
This UI usually mimicks the way "classic" imageboard UI works, and classic imageboard UI only shows a comment ID in such cases.
I thought: why show comment ID if it doesn't provide any context anyway?
That's why it simply shows a row of dots.
I also experimented with "automatically expand autogenerated quotes" but then I noticed that the page content became cluttered and the speed of reading such page became slow.
Before, a user would only read the meaningful (new) content.
After, the user would read both old (repeated) and new content. The noise ratio would be about 50%.
The user wouldn't be able to tell an autogenerated quote from a human-written one, so they'd have to read them all, and the content of quotes, as I've said, is at least half the whole content on a page.
For that reason, my personal opinion is that such feature wouldn't really be reasonable to have.
Rather, it would be counter-productive.
thats true, it would be much more cluttered. that's why i thought about making it a switch in the settings, not the default view.
thats a good point about autogenerated vs. handwritten comments. i guess i'm just looking for a better way to see the references between comments without always having to either expand all the replies to a given comment or hover over the quotes.
but you're right, to show all the quotes or expand everything by default would lead to lots of repeated content. i guess thats just the nature of imageboards vs a system like reddit, which is based on replies from the ground up and where replies can only exist in a hierarchical relation to a comment and not on one big chronological timeline. i have to think about it some more. thanks for your detailed reply.