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This is @sox's latest improvement to live comments. Now when you're viewing a thread comments will just appear rather than requiring you click to show. It's kind of like google docs for threads.
It does some really clever stuff to not cause the page shift around, but it might not do it perfectly in all situations. So please mention us when it pisses you off, so we can adjust it. It's a moderately novel thing, to have trees of content update like a chat, so we didn't want to make too many assumptions and will rely on feedback to minimize frustrations with it.
Expect further improvements to this too. Our plan is to reuse this code for DMs (tree-Ms) before too long.
There were also some other bug fixes that went live after the last release over the last few weeks, but nothing really of note.


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262 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 2h
Going to be honest:
  • On desktop, both implementations are a bit distracting when I'm working on a longer reply. I often quote source articles, pictures, and so on and I spend a longer time with the write screen open. Also I'm a slow af boomer, sorry
  • On PWA, I don't mind as much because I anyway don't do long replies from mobile, so there its cool.
I was wondering: can I turn it off on desktop, to retain focus?
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174 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 2h
This is exactly the kind of feedback weโ€™re looking for. It should be relatively trivial to implement a setting to disable it.
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With these live comments will we still get red dot notification on notification icon? There's a chance to miss some comments without this red dot, innit?
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29 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 3h
The notifications red dot remains and is separate from comments, its purpose is dedicated to many more things other than comments: zaps, mentions, etc.
The comments section doesn't have yet such things, other than a blue outline that distinguishes new comments from existing comments. A new way to know when there's a new comment is coming soon!
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That's great. Sometimes I miss some messages even in private direct messaging. Without this red dot I'd miss everything over here
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when the live comment start flowing in:
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 5h
I keep forgetting to add that gif to my gif lexicon
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 5h
I had to create it just now from an X link cuz it's nowhere to easily copy from.
Also wtf part of the interview was this? Did a fan just turn on or something? lol
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82 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 5h
yeah i don't recall this part of the interview either. thiel is usually pretty spacey though. maybe there are just many such moments and they blend in
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 1h
lol never seen this one
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Excited to see it in action!
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b OP 5h
oh yeah!?
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Boom! There it is
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 5h
yeah buddy
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This is going to be great with so many chats
269 sats \ 10 replies \ @sox 5h
The air feels auto-live! (iโ€™m gonna stop saying this when live comments improvements are done)
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 1h
sox! your killing it ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
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nice improvement
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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h
It sure is! And it will be much better soon!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 4h
indeed
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 4h
i'm just going to keep commenting lazy things so folks can see it in action
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 5h
i'm mostly looking forward to the favicon stuff now. outlining feels a little unreliable too for some reason, but that might've just been in dev.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @sox 4h
Mmhhh, weird that it happens even with all the fallbacks that it has now. I'll take a closer look!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 4h
i think it was just in dev. seems to be fine in prod so far
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 4h
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 4h
we have PRs that change the favicon AND add a next navigation element that shows when new comments are available
should deploy by the end of next week. i was just excited to ship this
Awesome @sox!!!
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 4h
woot
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h
Live live comments! Now that's a great concept.
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This is awesome! These kinda updates will make SN more and more fun to interact and consequently giving it a feel of social media.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 4h
Maybe off-topic but tree-Ms is really clever
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @fred 4h
That will be some nice UX
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Just a test, waiting for a reply.
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22 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 3h
test
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Cool. But what if the new comment is somewhere you can't see? Do you get a notification for that? waiting here at the top of the page...
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27 sats \ 3 replies \ @sox 2h
This is a glimpse of what live comments could look like. We have new improvements that are set to be released by the end of next week, such as the ability to navigate between new comments that are not in your view. Can't wait!
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After trying it out, I think there should be a notification for new comments. Because when a post has a lot of replies, you don't even notice when new ones come in.
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39 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 2h
You're right! There's a preview of what it could look like right here. What do you think? ๐Ÿ‘€