Comment by trjordan
9 years ago
Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go.
Great stuff, overall -- thanks!
9 years ago
Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go.
Great stuff, overall -- thanks!
That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.
As it stands, I have already accidentally clicked "ago" and gone to a comment permalink when I wanted to collapse a thread. Not much better.
Since collapse persists on page loads, hopefully it is better now. Then again, we can un-vote now, so I think we're back to having the behavioral advantages and disadvantages being close enough that it's a toss-up what any particular user thinks is more of a problem.
Why not double-click the comment body to collapse/expand? or maybe some other behavior that isn't creating a click minefield.
But at least now we can undo upvotes/downvotes so it's not as much of an issue as before!
...which is now not a problem.
It's not as much of a problem, but if people are regularly trying and failing to perform the action they want it's a UI wart.
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Reddit does it that way, and I haven't seen any of the developers complain about accidental votes.
Because accidental votes are not a problem when you can undo a vote, which is now possible as well.
I've used HN Enhancement Suite for a while, and that really wasn't a problem.
I feel like it would be worth the trade-off.
This would be appreciated here too. The functionality is great but it feels unnatural where it's currently positioned.
Making it a slightly bigger target with a dash would also be useful: [–] instead of [-]
More generally, can you try to adjust it so that the [-] button doesn’t move around after being clicked?
The spacing above the username at the top of the comment shouldn’t change when a thread is collapsed.
I would say: left of the vote button too.
That's the behaviour I have on the reader I wrote. https://hack.ernews.info Works pretty well
I agree -- the Hacker News Collapse Chrome extension works this way, and I have become accustomed to it.
+1
yes. it doesn't make sense from any design perspective. alignment is an important visual signifier and usability design tool.
there is no reason why vote arrows would be aligned across posts (it suggests a connection where there is none), while there are several for the collapse buttons.
this is textbook user interface design!