Emile comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: Emile 20 April 2011 09:27:39PM 14 points [-]

When getting a link to an individual comment, instead of just showing the comment above, show the whole damn thread (or at least, all the parents). I'm tired of having to click on "Parent" a dozen times to understand the context of a comment.

Comment author: ideclarecrockerrules 20 April 2011 09:49:16PM 5 points [-]

You can append "?context=100" to the comment permalink.

Comment author: Emily 21 April 2011 08:23:09PM 1 point [-]

It would be better if this wasn't necessary!

Comment author: matt 03 May 2011 10:12:40AM 1 point [-]

We looked at doing this last year, but it's tricky due to another site feature - when a post's comment count gets large low vote comments threads get collapsed to "load more comments" links. It wasn't obvious (in the small time we put into it) how to make sure the comment you were permalinking actually appeared on the main post in its default state.
(It's obviously possible - just trickier than trivial.)