A handy little new feature in #Catodon, implemented by @linca - thank you!
You know how Mastodon and Misskey show only the number of direct replies under each post? This doesn't provide enough information, as a post might have just one direct reply, but it might be a thread with twenty more comments nested - yet you only see "1" reply.
In Catodon, you still see the number of direct replies in your timeline, but when you click on a post and see the detailed view, next to the number of direct replies you can also see the number of sub-replies under them! So in this case we have 55 direct replies, nesting 118 sub-replies. This way you can easily see how deep the discussion under a post goes at any time, without having to go through every thread! Does this sound useful to you?
@bumble This doesn't affect the current common behaviour of pretty much all fedi platforms, where some replies might not be visible from third servers. It works for all posts viewed through Catodon - if the post is in your server then it has info for all replies, if it is on a remote server then it will show the number of replies that have been fetched. @catodon@linca
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