[Mockup] Chronological Order is missing a "Show Parent" button
We all agree: flat view is getting better by leaps and bounds. But there's still one problem: When people reply in nested view, they often don't quote. They don't need to. But when you view that same discussion in flat view, it's often unclear what the poster is responding to!
'Show Parent,' like we used to have, was a great idea; the issue was in the implementation: someone reading in flat view wants to see the previous comment right there and in flat view, not in a different place, in nested view. Therefore, I present the following suggested implementation. Yay, mockups!
First, we add in the buttons to show parents to each post:
https://i.imgur.com/hiAYRRK.png
Then, when we click on it, the parent slides up, "from behind" the comment whose parent we want to read, and comes to rest like so:
https://i.imgur.com/g4Gevp4.png
Note that the 'show parent' button that I clicked now reads, "Hide Parent." Thoughts?
Cheers,
Hyrum Graff