On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 17:58 -0600, Nicholas Sielicki via aur-dev wrote: > lfleischer suggested (on the thread quoted above) that one potiential solution > could be a link towards the bottom of long comments that ties into javascript, > where one could click to expand it. I think that's a much better solution-- > provided that the full contents of the comment would still be accessibile in a > browser without javascript. eg: page is served with fully visible comments, > long comments are hidden by javascript after it loads. >
My only criticism is that if a comment is extremely long, then you would either have to refresh the stupid page to make it manageable again or collapse it (if that's available). I personally am in favor of limiting the length of comments entirely and just making people use services like Gist or pastebin for log/console output or patches. > Personally, I think the best solution would be to just revert the change > entirely. I disagree with the notion that long comments are "usually useless". > I think that more often than not, the opposite is actually true-- longer > comments typically are the ones that contain fixes/patches for broken AUR > pkgbuilds. Not to mention, comments on aurweb are already paginated after 10 > comments-- that alone keeps the page (relatively) short. > The reason this was added was because people would paste in ridiculously long comments that made the comments section huge and unmanageable. And by ridiculously long comments, there was one I saw that is now deleted that was hundreds of lines long. If this change is reverted, I would like to see something replace it rather than just leaving it the way it was. Mark Weiman
