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.
I implemented this recently: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3387
There was some discussion about it in Dessalines’s recent post. The reason I think it might be visually overwhelming is because of long titles and because sometimes there are a dozen crossposts. Maybe something like Photon’s crossposts display can be combined with the other idea of showing comments from crossposts, two birds one stone kind of thing.
I’m just gonna copy a comment I made on Dessalines’s post:
Combine posts and not just comments.
In addition to my other suggestions I think showing crossposts with their own comments would be very easy to understand and no one would miss the context because the title and body text of each post would be there. Basically add a section at the end that says “Crossposts” and have a little 🛈 or � next to it that explains the whole thing, when you click on “Crossposts” it expands and shows post previews like when you’re browsing (with the + sign to see body text) and the comments appear below the preview. And this could be off by default so it wouldn’t confuse new users.
This is just feedback, I do appreciate your work, and I know implementing ideas is not always easy.
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?
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.
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.
I get it.
Photon example
Looks similar to the new UI in the PR linked above, except you have to expand it manually.
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.
