This userscript for kbin enhances the comment section adjusting the layout and adding a line to the left of each comment and its replies that lets you collapse them. The design is inspired by some custom subreddit stylesheets, and new reddit surprisingly enough (you know what they say about broken clocks)
Personally, I think this is the best way to handle collapsing comments here's a screenshot.
Sorry for triple posting, but just wanted to test this out real quick. The script seems to basically work, but I've found a couple issues; After my second post it showed the line only on the first post. The second post didn't get a collapse line until I collapsed/uncollapsed the first post.
Second, when I edited a comment it removed the collapse line from that post until I edited a second time. This doesn't seem to be consistent.
Third, and this might just be on my end, at some point while editing the posts, the second post is now on the far right of the comments window, instead of just slightly to the right of its parent comment.
I don't think these issues will be a huge deal, and I'm still looking forward to using this. Thanks for making it!
EDIT: Should also mention I'm on Firefox as well, incase that matters.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll see what I can do about fixing those issues. I think I might have partially fixed the first one, but the new comment isn't nesting properly.
Edit: this is a test to see if editing is working
Edit 2: my change didn't fix that, I'm on it
Edit: Already fixed, Thank you very much.
This is how it looks to me.
im on firefox kbin.social with kbin enhancement script an the optins for Show collapse comment Show collapse replies off
I like the way that kbin enhancement does its config, but I plan on releasing the configuration for this script as a library that everyone can use in their userscripts, to make configs easy (and work cross-platform). I just need to finish it up and separate it into its own script
Edit: The issue was resolved, so please ignore this message. Thanks u/artillect!
There was an issue where the parent comment was in a column on the left side and its children were all on the right, but I adjusted the CSS:
.entry-comment .children {
/* grid-area: children; */ /* disable or delete this */
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.entry-comment .comment-level--2:first-child {
margin-top: 3rem; /* Edit: If the child comment is long then the text will get cut off, so setting the margin and/or parent height conditionally could work*/
}
I'm having an issue where clicking anywhere on the comment will collapse it; Not just the line on the left. I couldn't figure out why myself, looking in the code, and it seems no-one else is having the issue?
That's a feature I added a bit later on, you should be able to disable it in the settings menu in the top right. However, this userscript is no longer supported, and has been added to KES (which you can install here), with some more config options added as well.
So, I have been using this script for a couple of weeks, and I can honestly say at this point that I cannot fathom using kbin without it. I really hope this gets rolled into core in some way.
I still get that the grant method isn't supported with that command. I'm running Userscripts in Safari. No worries, I was able to get another one working - it's not as nice as the one you made but it's getting the job done for now.
The only way to identify which comments are from OP are the dotted red line to the left of the comment, this script removes that so it is impossible to tell who OP is. Is there a way you could readd that or make some other differentiator so we know who OP is?
Love it! I've noticed a single issue with themes though. Thread lines have set colors, which wouldn't be a problem unless you are using the solarized dark theme, then the first thread line is really hard to see.
What I did to fix that is simply set it the same border the first thread line uses normally (which is just the section border) that covers the background .comment-level--1 > .expando .threadLine { border: var(--kbin-section-border); border-width: 2px; }. It also fixes inconsistency between default kbin themes and custom-made ones. Before and after
Great idea for the change to the color so it respects the color scheme better.
For now, I've added an option that lets you disable "clicking anywhere on a comment to collapse", you can change it by clicking on your username in the top right, then clicking "Userscript Settings", and it'll be the only option in the menu that pops up
Edit: I just fixed the issue with highlighting text making comments collapse in 1.3.1
@artillect I found a weird bug/interaction! When you have the script (v1.2.1) as-is and enable media previews in the sidebar settings, a bunch of comments begin collapsed. It happens in this thread so it can be used for testing. Most of your comments are auto-collapsed.
The click handler on comments is triggered, as shown by this modification:
// Add event listener to comment
comments[i].addEventListener('click', function(){console.log("CLICK on comment " + i); toggleReplies(event, comments[i], expando)});
It spams a bunch of log lines in the console. I'm guessing the auto media preview is implemented by simulating clicks on comments, but I haven't checked the code.
I also found a fix: listen for 'mouseup' instead of 'click'. However, this still collapses comments when you try to select text so that's still not good.