There's multilingual support yes, and user contributed out-of-date translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Polish
(I keep adding new buttons and labels, and renaming things, so the translations get out-of-date / fallback to English.)
There's RTL support but no Arabic / Hebrew / etc translations yet.
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> It would be nice to have a button to collapse replies for a given comment, but not the comment itself
Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ?
Actually there was a feature for 2, in the past, but it's disabled now though. The database fields are still there, plan to make that code work again some time in the future. (Then you could manually "curate" a discussion, by collapsing all replies to certain posts, to make the reading experience better for your site visitors.)
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Can I ask which Android version and phone do you use? — I optimized Talkyard a while ago, by looking in Chrome Dev Tools, but this was on my laptop.
What things lag the most? (Some specific button(s) or animation or scrolling or ... ?)
> Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ?
Rather for myself, but as an account setting so that I don't have to collapse them manually for each thread. Actually it stems from something that bothers me with HN: when there are a lot of nested replies, I lose track of the which comment corresponds to which parent. For example, try reading this thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22705222, I find it difficult.
If there are 5 comments (level 0), that each has 10 replies (level 1) and each one of them has 10 replies (level 2), I wish I was able to collapse level n>0 replies to read the comments first, then be able to unfold level 1 replies for the first comment, while keeping level 2 hidden, and so on.
This might not be the ideal solution, maybe simply the way you added arrows to replies would make the above thread easier to read.
> What things lag the most? (Some specific button(s) or animation or scrolling or ... ?)
I just found it's not specific to android (I'm using Android 10 on a recent galaxy smartphone). Mostly animations. On the desktop version, If I click on the plus button near 'Chat Channels', the login window is show progressively, and the background is dimmed in way that 'feels' slow. Also when I unfold a collapsed reply, the page moves slowly (is there a reason it moves ?).
When I click reply, a window is shown, 'loading draft...' appears then disappears quickly and then the preview is highlighted, it somehow feels slow.
> I lose track of the which comment corresponds to which parent
Me too, here at HN. When I'm reading on my phone, looking at reply R to a parent post P somewhere far above, and I want to re-read P — then I place my finger to the left on the screen, at the current indentation depth, and scroll up up up, past the even-more-indented-replies above ... until the indentation depth becomes 1 step less than my finger. Then I've found the parent comment :- )
Problem is, how do I find the reply R again. And, sometimes I accidentally move my finger, losing track of both R and P.
If you want to try this yourself, go here: https://www.talkyard.io/-71#post-16 then click the long arrow to the left, then click Back at the bottom of the screen.
> unfold level 1 replies for the first comment, while keeping level 2 hidden
Something like that, yes. At the same time, since popular / "good" replies are sorted first, I think it can make sense to unfold a few of the level 2 replies, for the topmost level 1 replies — so one needs to click fewer times, to read the "most interesting" things. But these are minor details; I agree with the overall idea.
> Rather for myself, but as an account setting
Ok. There're also custom user groups — so a site admin could configure this setting for the Everyone group, and then one could override it, individually.
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>> what things lag the most
> Mostly animations [...]
Ok, thanks for the detailed feedback. I think the code is doing things too much sequentially — like, first loading any draft — an X * 100 ms round trip to the server. Then scrolling the post one replies to into view, Y * 100 ms, then scrolling the preview into view, Z * 100 ms (so both are visible at the same time, if possible). — If instead everything happened at once, it'd seem more instant.
(Also, there're editor Javascript:s that JIT-compiles and runs the first time one opens the editor.)
(I keep adding new buttons and labels, and renaming things, so the translations get out-of-date / fallback to English.)
There's RTL support but no Arabic / Hebrew / etc translations yet.
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> It would be nice to have a button to collapse replies for a given comment, but not the comment itself
Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ?
Actually there was a feature for 2, in the past, but it's disabled now though. The database fields are still there, plan to make that code work again some time in the future. (Then you could manually "curate" a discussion, by collapsing all replies to certain posts, to make the reading experience better for your site visitors.)
* * *
Can I ask which Android version and phone do you use? — I optimized Talkyard a while ago, by looking in Chrome Dev Tools, but this was on my laptop.
What things lag the most? (Some specific button(s) or animation or scrolling or ... ?)