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Update! ok ive been that frustrated with this i have just been over to the buddyboss demo theme and logged in as test user to see if it was happening there to, and guess what? same problem!

Now i think i am either going mad or this feature was never in buddypress and only hides more than 5 comments on the first page of activity updates? i could of swore it used to work for me after clicking load more? am i going mad or what guys? any feedback will be appreciated, and if indeed this is normal behaviour for buddypress then all i can ask is why?

surely something like this should of been adressed ages ago, i know you guys have been working on the speed and queries etc which is outstanding work 🙂 but what about all these little details that need adressing? there is no such plugin to help with this issue, and surely it would be great to also have collapsable and expanding comments so you can collapse them again?
the commenting system is very awkward if there is alot of people commenting.

who really likes to scroll through a couple of hundred comments on one post if its not interesting to them? does anyone have a fix for this in any form? @henrywright do you have any takes on this pal?

@danbp i didnt hide the activity comments myself even though i know you can change the number visible if you wanted but im happy with default of 5 showing.

buddypress automatically hides more than 5 comments anyway and if say 10 comments have been made a link will appear saying show all 10 comments, you then click it and it expands them.

thats what i am saying, it works fine until you scroll down to previous updates with comments made above 5, by clicking the load more button at the bottom of activity this stops working.

instead of seeing the link that says show all 10 comments you just see the 10 comments or 20 comments allready expanded , is that a little clearer? you can both go and test it on buddypress install within a few minutes and you will see what i mean? no

@danbp @henrywright i think i have found a solution! took alot of hours searching for this, but i have found some code (function) that adds a new button to each activity allowing you to toggle the comments to collapse and expand throughout buddypress.

I am going to spend some time testing this tonight and will share the fix later if i dont run into any problems with it, maybe this could be made into a plugin? , obviously the credit for this is not mine and belongs to the guy who figured this out, i have just found the code:) and altered it a little, i have it working now and all seems fine i will try it out on a few different themes first.