I reply to a comment.

Later, I want to see other discussion around the comment–who else replied, what they said, etc.

As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to do this. If I See Parent Comment, or whatever, it keeps me locked into that chain of replies and I cannot see anybody elses replies unless they are beneath my comment.

My only options are: 1-View all comments and find the original comment there. 2-Go to the user’s profile and find the comment, click on it, be brought back to thread at that comment (this is what I’d like to do with a single click).

This used to be a feature on a reddit (maybe it was called “go to comment”), but disappeared in the enshittifification.

Edit: Clarification:

What I want to see:

Comment A
= A Reply to Comment A
= = Reply to reply to comment A
= My Reply to Comment A
= = Reply to My Comment
= Yet Another Reply to Comment A

Right now, the best I can easily do is:

Comment A
= My Comment
= =Reply to My Comment

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I want to see the replies to the comment I replied to (aka siblings of my comment?)

    What I want to see:

    Comment A
    = A Reply to Comment A
    = = Reply to reply to comment A
    = My Reply to Comment A
    = = Reply to My Comment
    = Yet Another Reply to Comment A

    Right know, the best I can easily do is:

    Comment A
    = My Comment
    = =Reply to My Comment

    I want to know how the rest of the conversation is going, in other words. Do people have the same ideas, am I repeating information, am I at odds with the rest of the community, etc…

    :

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Reddit does still have this feature if you use the old.reddit.com interface. It’s called “Context” and shows the parent comment to your comment and all its child comments including yours.

      Back when I used Reddit, I used this all the time and also missed it in Lemmy when I first switched. I had actually forgotten about this but would love to have this feature too.

      • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        If I’m understanding correctly, Jerboa has this button as well, to walk up the tree one step at a time basically. So it shouldn’t be impossible

            • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              Perfect! So all it would be is link with a label in the hamburger menu. What label are you thinking? Context is ambiguous, “Go to Comment” is clearest for me.

              • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 month ago

                I don’t like “Context” either but I see how you get there.

                “Go to Comment” is wrong, IMO, because it suggests going to the comment itself; not the parent.

                “Parent Comment” is good, but what if the parent is a Post rather than a Comment

                You could change based on parent type, but “Parent Post” sounds weird; simplifying to “Post” doesn’t work because of verb confusion.

                So “Context” seems best to me of those options…

                ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                  1·
                  1 month ago

                  Depends what we’re clicking on first. “Go to this comment” is pretty clear to me, but it’s up to me to know to do that.

                  The problem with “context” is that siblings might not be considered context by the end user; I’d read it as a link to the TOP-level comment and reply chain leading directly to the selected comment, minus siblings.

                  • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
                    1·
                    1 month ago

                    Simply “Go Up” would work for nerds! Probably confusing for normal folks though…

    • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I go to my profile and click my comment. I can see the parent comment I replied to, my reply, replies to me, and replies to those replies.