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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3861 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 20, 2022

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Do we still have a meta thread for suggestions? The way notifications work is very inconvenient, since you have to manually look through all the threads in your notification tab to figure out what's new.

Also, do mods see who submitted a report?

Seconded. If only there were a way to search for the blue highlight in browser.

Aren't new replies highlighted in pale blue for you?

Ok, so they are highlighted in light grey, but there's still no way to find them except by scrolling down, which is very annoying if you have multiple threads or different comment chains.

They are, but that still isn't very convenient for notifications. For example: I make a comment, I get 7 replies, see the notification for all of them, then way later someone else replies. That new reply, though highlighted in blue, will still be way down below all the ones that came before it. Not really the best way to present them.

I would say that notifications should put the newest replies to your comment up top, or better still, only show you the new replies. Highlighting blue doesn't really solve the issue with notifications, unfortunately.

I don't know if it works for notifications (Edit: it does), but if you go to your profile settings and add the following custom CSS rule, you can ctrl+f for new comments:


.unread::before {

	content: "new";

}

Just like the old slatestarcodex comment section.

Edit: those are supposed to be tildes around "new", but the markdown code block is rendering it as a strikethrough on my machine, no matter whether I use 4-space or triple-backtick format. escaped inline backtick

Not that I've noticed. I'm using dark mode, maybe that's why? If there is a highlight it's not obvious enough for me to have noticed it.

Also, if you navigate away and come back won't they no longer be highlighted? Reddit had an option to see all replies in reverse chronological order, which was often helpful.

this is the case for me and I appreciate it but I had a reddit addon that let me pick something like "6 hours" and would highlight any comment within that period, which is good for certain browsing strategies.

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