The out of context top-level display of comments when I navigate to them always bothered me, but up until recently I haven’t realized there is a way to go to the actual comment via a simple URL change. From https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>/?commentId=<commentid>To https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>#<commentid>Here is a quick gpt4 generated userscript that does this.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>/?commentId=<commentid>
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>#<commentid>
// ==UserScript== // @name Always show in-context comments // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description Redirect from ‘?commentId=’ format to ‘#’ // @author Vlad Sitalo // @match https://www.lesswrong.com/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { ‘use strict’; var checkAndRedirect = function() { var url = window.location.href; if(url.includes(”?commentId=”)){ var newUrl = url.split(”?commentId=”).join(“#”); window.location.href = newUrl; } }; // Run on page load checkAndRedirect(); // Run on URL change var pushState = history.pushState; history.pushState = function() { pushState.apply(history, arguments); checkAndRedirect(); }; var replaceState = history.replaceState; history.replaceState = function() { replaceState.apply(history, arguments); checkAndRedirect(); }; window.addEventListener(‘popstate’, checkAndRedirect); })();
Userscript to always show LW comments in context vs at the top
The out of context top-level display of comments when I navigate to them always bothered me, but up until recently I haven’t realized there is a way to go to the actual comment via a simple URL change.
From
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>/?commentId=<commentid>
To
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>#<commentid>
Here is a quick gpt4 generated userscript that does this.