Meta: it looks like a few people (including me) are getting confused about comments disappearing on this thread. The page by default only displays 100 comments, presumably chosen by magical algorithm, and you need to request at the top to get it to display more comments.
To me this effect is jarring because when I see that a comment I wrote has disappeared I don’t know whether it was 1) eaten by a bug, 2) put on another thread by a bug, 3) deleted by a moderator, or 4) hidden in this way, which is not a hypothesis I had before looking more carefully because I already had 3 other excellent hypotheses. I don’t have concrete suggestions for what to do about this.
Yep, this is horrible and I apologize. We only had two threads with over 100 comments since he start of LW2, and so this is not something that I ended up optimizing super much for. But I will try to fix it soon.
Since we’re talking about the behavior of comment threads, I hope you won’t mind me mentioning here that I would love to be able to collapse a comment from below its nested replies in addition to the top of the comment. I’m finding that I often am scrolling down a chain of nested replies to see if anything new has been added, discovering that nothing has, and then scrolling up to collapse.
EDIT: never mind, that’s what the green bar is for! I just hadn’t seen any new comments yet :D
Meta: it looks like a few people (including me) are getting confused about comments disappearing on this thread. The page by default only displays 100 comments, presumably chosen by magical algorithm, and you need to request at the top to get it to display more comments.
To me this effect is jarring because when I see that a comment I wrote has disappeared I don’t know whether it was 1) eaten by a bug, 2) put on another thread by a bug, 3) deleted by a moderator, or 4) hidden in this way, which is not a hypothesis I had before looking more carefully because I already had 3 other excellent hypotheses. I don’t have concrete suggestions for what to do about this.
Yep, this is horrible and I apologize. We only had two threads with over 100 comments since he start of LW2, and so this is not something that I ended up optimizing super much for. But I will try to fix it soon.
Since we’re talking about the behavior of comment threads, I hope you won’t mind me mentioning here that I would love to be able to collapse a comment from below its nested replies in addition to the top of the comment. I’m finding that I often am scrolling down a chain of nested replies to see if anything new has been added, discovering that nothing has, and then scrolling up to collapse.
EDIT: never mind, that’s what the green bar is for! I just hadn’t seen any new comments yet :D