Absolutely - and it is not entirely just a convenience factor, it really is possible to get “lost” since PieFed often seems to ignore where the URL link was pointing (especially if there are many comments and those now have to load differently, after the page load) and instead just defaults to navigating to the top of the OP, at which point if you attempt to search for the identical text of the message, it may not be found (despite the fact that it 100% does exist, deeper in the chain). Here is an example link: https://piefed.social/post/1305005#comment_8178603, which (1) you will note that clicking it does not navigate directly to it (note that there are only 59 comments total - so this failure to navigate directly to it is entirely separate from the issue of loading comments after the page), and (2) despite the fact that that comment includes the full text “And it makes sense that it was not a FULL rebuttal”, if you search for that text it will not be found. The only way I can manage to find it after being thus “lost” is to go through the page and click on every single “Continue thread” that appears there one by one, underneath one of them (hopefully!?:-P) the desired content will eventually be found.
Replying to comments is something that I do several times a day - I am doing it right here and now in fact:-). This is something that should have a much higher prioritization to fix than searching, imho. Not that I want to “demand” anything - all of this work is done for free and we all appreciate that - but in case it helps to say my thoughts and where I am coming from there:-D. I would love to see replying to comments streamlined much more than it is now, even at the cost of pushing back implementation of a more robust set of search functions.
Edit: another streamlining that I would love to see happen is inline editing of comments. I hate how after you edit an existing comment, it next takes you to the full page and you lose where you were before.
Despite beginning with https://, PieFed does not render it as clickable.
Upon pasting it into Firefox on Android, the results it offers are simply “No search results.”
So I presume that people are aware of and discussing this issue? But PieFed still unfortunately lacks a great deal of such “polish” matters of very foundational concepts as URL rendering, navigation to specific comments, replying to comments, and previewing posts. Other than viewing posts, these concepts are mainly what I do on PieFed:-), so it would be great to fix those prior to a search function that would be useful less often.
Btw do you think I created the codeberg issue correctly? Nobody has commented on it so I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t add any labels for it - perhaps those are admin controlled.
yeah I can see that. Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be to collapse a chain of comments.
Ah, found the link: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1362
Absolutely - and it is not entirely just a convenience factor, it really is possible to get “lost” since PieFed often seems to ignore where the URL link was pointing (especially if there are many comments and those now have to load differently, after the page load) and instead just defaults to navigating to the top of the OP, at which point if you attempt to search for the identical text of the message, it may not be found (despite the fact that it 100% does exist, deeper in the chain). Here is an example link: https://piefed.social/post/1305005#comment_8178603, which (1) you will note that clicking it does not navigate directly to it (note that there are only 59 comments total - so this failure to navigate directly to it is entirely separate from the issue of loading comments after the page), and (2) despite the fact that that comment includes the full text “And it makes sense that it was not a FULL rebuttal”, if you search for that text it will not be found. The only way I can manage to find it after being thus “lost” is to go through the page and click on every single “Continue thread” that appears there one by one, underneath one of them (hopefully!?:-P) the desired content will eventually be found.
Replying to comments is something that I do several times a day - I am doing it right here and now in fact:-). This is something that should have a much higher prioritization to fix than searching, imho. Not that I want to “demand” anything - all of this work is done for free and we all appreciate that - but in case it helps to say my thoughts and where I am coming from there:-D. I would love to see replying to comments streamlined much more than it is now, even at the cost of pushing back implementation of a more robust set of search functions.
Edit: another streamlining that I would love to see happen is inline editing of comments. I hate how after you edit an existing comment, it next takes you to the full page and you lose where you were before.
ah yes I have encountered that. I can see what they say but not what I said they are replying to and then you go to the full post and yeah. continues.
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/6-bugs/topic/Clicking.20on.20a.20comment.20timestamp.20doesn’t.20bring.20you.20to.20it/with/7468
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/stream/6-bugs/topic/Clicking.20on.20a.20comment.20timestamp.20doesn’t.20bring.20you.20to.20it/near/7399
There are multiple problems with your link here.
Despite beginning with https://, PieFed does not render it as clickable.
Upon pasting it into Firefox on Android, the results it offers are simply “No search results.”
So I presume that people are aware of and discussing this issue? But PieFed still unfortunately lacks a great deal of such “polish” matters of very foundational concepts as URL rendering, navigation to specific comments, replying to comments, and previewing posts. Other than viewing posts, these concepts are mainly what I do on PieFed:-), so it would be great to fix those prior to a search function that would be useful less often.
Btw do you think I created the codeberg issue correctly? Nobody has commented on it so I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t add any labels for it - perhaps those are admin controlled.
I just tried this one, works on Firefox mobile :
https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/6-bugs/topic/Clicking.20on.20a.20comment.20timestamp.20doesn’t.20bring.20you.20to.20it/with/7468
Excellent! Although this really makes me wish now that I could easily retrieve the parent comment for it… haha! 😅