[Idea] Imgur style comments

Sir ArmaMalum·Jan 21, 2014·4 votes·481 views

Really not too much different from now, but what Imgur does (for those who do not know) by default is show the first comment in a comment chain and expands the entire comment chain on a click. This prevents a single comment chain from visually dominating over every other comment.

Keep in mind you can minimize comments and entire comment chains now, I'm proposing to have them minimized by default and clicking to maximize instead of the other way around as it is now. Thoughts anyone?

4 Comments

LiarLyreJan 22, 20141 votes

I second this motion as a fellow imgurian. It works pretty much flawlessly on imgur and i see no reason it couldnt work here.

Sir ArmaMalumJan 22, 20141 votes

Without changing all that much either! XD

MearnaJan 23, 20141 votes

I don't like the phrasing of "imgur style comments" (they didn't invent it) but I see where you're coming from. I agree that would be a more organized way to comment, especially since the old LoL forums did it that way.

Sir ArmaMalumJan 23, 20141 votes

Yeah, I don't know of a specifically better way to phrase it and imho its the easiest way to communicate it. Personally I like the idea of upvoting comments and especially the comment threading so it's much easier to have actual conversations with comments. The old forum definitely looks nicer, but it's so easy to get lost in a hugely commented post and I cannot count the number of times I say "screw it" because there are 15 pages of comments and I refuse to read them all. This style can compress that and has the capacity to be more organized.