It would be nice if everyone would use tags or brief quotations, so I can see who is replying to who.

Modern forums are confusing my old brain because I’m used to the old BB code and old style of forum navigation, but a lot of things have changed in Lemmy, and also with proprietary forums used by large companies.

Sometimes I forget how to use features. I’m no better than a boomer who needs constant reminders on how to hold a mouse.

I think some people either don’t care or they simply forget that you can highlight text with the mouse and then click “reply” to make a quotation. Maybe they are using a phone and it’s too difficult to do this.

  • kabi@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The way I read long and complicated threads is by going down one conversation, then collapsing that last comment at the end of it, and making my way back up the chain, collapsing “parent” comments if they have no uncollapsed “children”, and reading “sibling” comments and replies to those as I go up to the original “root” comment.

    This way the comment I am reading is always replying to the first uncollapsed one above it, as well as all the uncollapsed ones above that.

    But yeah… it can definitely get confusing.

    • passwordforgetter@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The way I read long and complicated threads is by going down one conversation, then collapsing that last comment at the end of it, and making my way back up the chain, collapsing “parent” comments if they have no uncollapsed “children”, and reading “sibling” comments and replies to those as I go up to the original “root” comment.

      That’s it, I didn’t even realise there’s a collapse button lol. Until now I just saw a lot of coloured lines that I thought I had to follow. I suppose it’s simple enough to follow things here if I collapse threads, or if I read threads before they get dozens of replies.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    2 days ago

    In Lemmy replies go under the comment you are replying to. If it’s not very clear which comment someone is replying to, you could try using a different way of viewing Lemmy.

    If you’re using an app, there are lots of options to try. See http://lemmyapps.com/ and filter by the platform at the top.

    If you’re accessing in a browser, check out the alternate front ends here: https://lemmy.nz/post/10718172