[aur-dev] Stop limiting the height of AUR comments?

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 03:48:34 UTC 2017


On Thu 09 Mar 2017 16:35 -0800, Bruno Pagani via aur-dev wrote:
> > At least for me, seeing only a small portion of the comment at a time makes
> > it much harder to fully grok, particularly when it comes to things like
> > logs, error messages, patches, etc.
> 
> Those should rather be pasted on pasting services though, but still…

I now believe that the AUR should have its own builtin pasting service for
patches, logs and other attachments. It will make for a more seamless
experience. I've come to despise when sites fetch resources from many other
domains.

> > Beyond that, try loading that AUR page on your phone, or try navigating the
> > comments with one of the browser plugins for vim-bindings. On my phone, it's
> > not obvious at first glance that the truncated comments are individually
> > scrollable.  I believe that multiple vertical scrollbars on a page is not a
> > great experience in any browser.
>
> Agree.

Yeah the long-comment scroll box is horrible. Bad idea.


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