A browser addon could be a potential workaround for pc users until official implementation. (Like the reddit one)

Just wondering if there's any update on this one, since it got labeled as planned over a year ago.

I really like the way the Boost for Lemmy/Reddit app does this, maybe it could be done in a similar way?

I would really love some way to easily collapse replies. It is really what makes or breaks a good reply browsing system for me .

I really like the way the Boost for Lemmy/Reddit app does this, maybe it could be done in a similar way?

So, clicking on the body of a post should minimize it to a header containing:

• Author (existing)
• Datetime (existing)
• Number of replies hidden (new)

Does replies usually include all subreplies? Like a full subthread? This could lead to massive numbers displayed. I'd imagine 30+ could be displayed for all numbers over 29, similar to notifications.

Should it also show:

• Number of likes?
• Number of reposts?

It will show up to 7 replies deep (parent on 0th level, then 7 replies), and will then show a "x more replies" button in the form of a reply,

which opens a seperate page containing the rest of the replies in the thread (with more "x more replies" buttons as needed)

The "x" in the button counts all replies and their children; this departs from what Twitter and Blusky seem to do when showing the reply count to a post, where it only counts top-level replies and disregards children. See this post, where the comment icon is "1" (as of now), but there are clearly more, just within children replies.

I personally don't see a reason to show like/retweet counts on collapsed posts, but I can see how people might expect that to be there & I can't really see a reason to not be present.

@scottdotweb I have made a solution check it out.