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Linking to a child comment currently brings you to its location on the page, without affecting the organization of comments.

For example, this one is structured like:

  • parent comment

    • child 1

    • child 2

    • child 3

      • grandchild 3.1

    • child 4

      • grandchild 4.1

      • grandchild 4.2 (link target)

and I would like it to display:

  • parent

    • child 4

      • grandchild 4.2 (link target)

, similar to Reddit.

EDIT: new bug: multi-level lists display properly on the comment preview, but not in the comment.

Linking to a child comment currently brings you to its location on the page, without affecting the organization of comments.

Coincidentally we actually just talked over how we wanted this to work; I believe TLSM is working on it now, and, yeah, we're basically going with the Reddit solution.

Note that you can get just that comment directly by handcrafting the URL, but if you try increasing the context you also get the siblings which we agree is kind of crummy.

EDIT: new bug: multi-level lists display properly on the comment preview, but not in the comment.

dangit, these lists are going to be the death of me

Bug filed.

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