The line that shows the links to other crossposts should add a (#comments), if there is any, after each link.

Some links get crossposted to multiple communities but I don’t know if any of these posts have any comments and it’s tedious to check them out one by one, and in my experience most of them don’t have any comments which discourages me from checking them out.

Also crosspost links could be in order of comments.

Another idea: instead of (#comments) it could be a different color or some other indicator.

  • Nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Just noticed that this post is already two weeks old. Im aware of the other discussion, there are a lot of ideas and we still need to decide what is the best way to implement it.

    Could you post a link or screenshot to see how Photon displays crossposts?

    • sadschmuck [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I was checking Photon’s settings and I noticed they have this option

      I know it’s unrelated but I thought it might interest you, and I don’t have a github account to open an issue.

      • Nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Read posts already show with a different color. So this could be a problem with your browser, or the specific Lemmy theme you are using.

      • Nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Looks similar to the new UI in the PR linked above, except you have to expand it manually.

        • sadschmuck [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          Having to expand it manually would help make the page look less cluttered. What I’m suggesting is that you have the Crossposts section at the bottom beneath the comments and for the user to be able to expand crossposts and read their post text and comments, essentially combining the crossposts display with the idea of fetching and showing comments from crossposts together.