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Feature Request: Flag New Comments (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml

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So when scrolling my feed I can see the total comments and total new comments, for example 27 +19 (where the +19 is in green). Would it be possible to have those 19 new comments “marked” in some way so I can quickly scroll and identify them? Wouldn’t have to be flashy, maybe even just a green dot or something next to the commenter’s username, or some sort of different binding/italicizing to highlight it?

TIA!

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[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We could do, but ideally it would be implemented on the backend - some people use PieFed on both mobile and desktop, and storing the last read count locally wouldn't carry over properly between clients. Lemmy 1.0 has backend support for this feature.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'd like to survey our users on this to see how they feel about what they read being tracked in this way.

Some time ago I floated the idea of somehow highlighting/prioritizing comments by people who had clicked the link to the article. People who mouth off without reading the article are a pain in the ass so I wanted to somehow de-emphasize those. The feedback I got at the time was pretty strongly "no I don't want you knowing what I read". It's too easy to do big data stuff on it to build profiles on people, I guess. It wasn't a proper poll, just people commenting so it's hard to know what the silent majority thinks.

So I'm a bit wary about it now.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Any suggestions for how to word the survey question? How it's framed will make a big difference to the result.

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If there was a readAt date for the post, we'd be able to highlight comments created since that date. I don't think tracking a readAt date is much less private than tracking a read boolean, which you're already doing. It could always be made opt-out, if people are concerned about it. Having the date that someone read a post isn't as exploitable as the link click tracking you mention, I don't think.