It seems rather nice. Though I wish there were an easier way to see context rather than leaving the page. Can't you just load the parent and maybe a few siblings on demand?
Now if we could get comments out of the firehose for logged out folks, and I could figure out how to set the logged-in firehose to show me something other than Idle + stories already on the front page by default, that would be nice, too.
Then maybe you can move on to options that let you read all replies in a thread, no matter what it's
Well, clicking 'Read More' takes you directly to the comment, and all it's parents are visible- although in abbreviated form.
The plan is to lower the color thresholds and reduce their visibility within the normal hose in most cases- only the very best comments would be visible.
Not sure about your firehose filter issues- try creating a filter and clicking the word 'untitled'. You can name the tab and revisit it later.
'Mark all as Read' is a reasonable suggestion. Maybe someday...
Usually, my problem is that I want to read *replies* (e.g. children of my own posts) without having to download every comment in the story just because some AC replied to me and I'm curious to see what they said.
You're right that it's pretty easy to go *up* the tree. But sometimes I need to go down, because I want to respond to (or at least read) whoever replied to me. And they might well be at 0 just because they're an AC.
I'll try making my own firehose tab sometime. That sounds useful.
Nifty (Score:2)
It seems rather nice. Though I wish there were an easier way to see context rather than leaving the page. Can't you just load the parent and maybe a few siblings on demand?
Now if we could get comments out of the firehose for logged out folks, and I could figure out how to set the logged-in firehose to show me something other than Idle + stories already on the front page by default, that would be nice, too.
Then maybe you can move on to options that let you read all replies in a thread, no matter what it's
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The plan is to lower the color thresholds and reduce their visibility within the normal hose in most cases- only the very best comments would be visible.
Not sure about your firehose filter issues- try creating a filter and clicking the word 'untitled'. You can name the tab and revisit it later.
'Mark all as Read' is a reasonable suggestion. Maybe someday...
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Usually, my problem is that I want to read *replies* (e.g. children of my own posts) without having to download every comment in the story just because some AC replied to me and I'm curious to see what they said.
You're right that it's pretty easy to go *up* the tree. But sometimes I need to go down, because I want to respond to (or at least read) whoever replied to me. And they might well be at 0 just because they're an AC.
I'll try making my own firehose tab sometime. That sounds useful.
Re:Nifty (Score:3)