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Why don't any frontends add a way to view a united thread for a single url? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like there's an easy win to keep up with the fragmentation of discussions without waiting for some implementation of this feature request.

All a frontend needs to do is group all posts with the same URL together and display all their comments in the as one unified comment section. If you reply to the OP, you can either choose which community the comment goes to, and maybe set a default as well.

This functionality should be an extra switch for the frontend, so that the user can disable it and see individual posts.

This also nicely avoids not knowing how to deal with moderation, as each community moderator still maintains control.

Comments from blocked communities would not appear ofc.

This would both prevent seeing the same post multiple times on your feed, but also drive view to smaller communities where comment in their sections are ignored.

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[–] Blaze 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

IIRC Thunder has this, it's pretty neat

Edit:

https://lemmy.world/comment/12613445

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Link plox

[–] BogusCabbage@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not 100% sure if this is what OP was refuting to, but it is on F-Droid using the IzzyOnDroid repo.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.hjiangsu.thunder/

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's a 404. Is there a git repo? I could use obtainium

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Takes a few seconds to find it: https://github.com/thunder-app

But if I understand OPs point correctly Thunder doesn't seem to do that. As a matter of fact, at least by default, it doesent even compact the same posts.

And yeah, missing out on being able to see comments from multiple threads (hopefully with a noticibly marked community context, so its not lost) is really missing out on the possibilities given by fedi.

[–] Blaze 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, then I don't remember correctly. Maybe it's Summit then? I'll have to dig, I'm sure I've seen a client which does that

[–] Blaze 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems to indeed be Thunder?

https://lemmy.world/comment/12613445

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Does it show all comments in the same place like I suggest, or does one have to click on each crosspost to see them?

[–] Blaze 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have the app myself, hopefully someone can clarify

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So I just installed it to check and it doesn't do that. It just makes crossposts a bit more visible.

However it looks like a neat app so I'll take it for a drive for a bit

[–] Blaze 4 points 3 weeks ago

I just downloaded it myself to check. Indeed all comments are not there, but you can indeed see at least the number of comments on the crossposts and easily switch.

That's probably the closest we can get at the moment

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