Topic: Any way to limit the number of nested comments in activity stream?

Any way to limit the number of nested comments in activity stream?

Gene53
Participant

@gene53

9 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

Is there a way to control the number of nested comments in activity threads? I tested this out and if I keep on replying to nested comments, the indentation looks ridiculous after 5 replies. I’ve tried it up to 10 and if I try to reply to the last one, the text input box disappears.

WP: 2.9.2 Single install
BP: latest version

Thanks

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Gene53
Participant

@gene53

9 years, 1 month ago

Is this a bug or can it be corrected?

Paul Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

9 years, 1 month ago

It’s not a bug. I can’t see any code in the core to control this, so it’d be custom.

Gene53
Participant

@gene53

9 years, 1 month ago

Thanks Paul,

Would anyone know of a snippet of code which could be inserted in my custom.php file which would accomplish this?

Gene53
Participant

@gene53

9 years, 1 month ago

I believe that this is an oversight by the developers and there should be a setting for this, akin to WP’s nested comments options or simply turn nested comments off.

If someone knows how to turn it off or a snippet of code to limit nested comments, please feel free to share.

mrglasspoole
Member

@mrglasspoole

9 years ago

Same thing i just found out. Comments on comments are cool, but 100 nested lists in another 100 nested lists are not.
Moving everything from comment to comment more to the right? I mean we have with screens but not entless pixels *lol

I thing about how to make comments on comments visible in another way. Colours? Some ideas?

chouxpastry2002
Participant

@chouxpastry2002

8 years, 4 months ago

solution is turn off nested commenting and keep only one level commenting !! i did it in one of my sites

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

8 years, 4 months ago

Facebook doesn’t nest for this very reason. It’s too much to read when you have a ton of comments. You can also remove it by altering CSS.

Aliceembroid
Participant

@aliceembroid

8 years, 3 months ago

Is there a way to minimize the comments. I would like my activity stream t show only the update until someone chooses to read more and then read the comments. I can’t seem to find anyway to do this. I am sure there is an answer but I think maybe I am not asking the right questions.
here is my site so people can see what I am on about.
http://eembroiderydesigns.com/social/