Currently long-pressing on a comment displays a ripple but doesn’t do anything beyond collapsing that single comment (same behavior as simple tap). It would be great if long-press could collapse a comment thread all the way up to the root comment.
Thanks, all of your updates have been terrific!
How would you get the parent comment back? I’m not understanding what problem this solves
Say there’s a post with a deep comment thread replying to one of the top-level comments. You start reading replies to one of the top-level comments and you’re done reading that conversation now (you didn’t each the end of the sub-comments and want to jump back to the main conversation to see other top-level comments). This feature would just collapse the current context you’re in (all sub-comments from the top-level comment) so that you can easily move on to other top level comments without having to scroll all the way back up to collapse that entire thread.
That top-level comment is now just collapsed, so if you wanted to dig back in again you just tap to uncollapse it as if you had collapsed the top-most comment yourself. It’s really just a shortcut to collapsing the top-level comment without having to scroll back up.
This isn’t a novel idea - apollo did it, it’s probably the #1 thing I miss that I haven’t seen any of the lemmy apps I’ve tried tackle.