At the moment if you’re inside a post and you want to refresh the comments you have to go all the way to the top and do the pull-down to refresh. Generally this is fine.

However a lot of communities have “live” posts where people watch a tv show or a sports event together. Especially with sports events the actual post text might be really long and requires a lot of scrolling to get past.

For instance a typical live sports thread: https://lemmy.world/post/1156203

I’m sorting by comments by “New” to easily follow the live chat. However to refresh, I need to scroll up about 10 pages on a mobile to get to the top of the post (all the scores and match details are being live updated by a bot in the post body). And then after a refresh I have to scroll all they way back down.

If there was somewhere to just press a refresh button when down in the comments or at the bottom of the post body. I think BaconReader used to have it in the top menu bar of the app. Just an option in the 3 dots menu to refresh would be fine.

Thanks!

  • Maven (famous)
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    21 year ago

    This already exists actually. Scroll up a tiny bit and the top menu slides down. Hit the three dots and then hit refresh.

    • Maven (famous)
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      21 year ago

      Oh nevermind. I realized you meant in the comment section and not when browsing normally. Normal browsing allows it.

      • @veroxiiOP
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        21 year ago

        Exactly. Just put it in the same place inside the comment section.