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

[Mark Weiman]

On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 17:58 -0600, Nicholas Sielicki via aur-dev wrote:
> lfleischer suggested (on the thread quoted above) that one potiential solution
> could be a link towards the bottom of long comments that ties into javascript,
> where one could click to expand it. I think that's a much better solution--
> provided that the full contents of the comment would still be accessibile in a
> browser without javascript. eg: page is served with fully visible comments,
> long comments are hidden by javascript after it loads.
> 

My only criticism is that if a comment is extremely long, then you would either
have to refresh the stupid page to make it manageable again or collapse it (if
that's available).

I personally am in favor of limiting the length of comments entirely and just
making people use services like Gist or pastebin for log/console output or
patches.

> Personally, I think the best solution would be to just revert the change
> entirely. I disagree with the notion that long comments are "usually useless".
> I think that more often than not, the opposite is actually true-- longer
> comments typically are the ones that contain fixes/patches for broken AUR
> pkgbuilds. Not to mention, comments on aurweb are already paginated after 10
> comments-- that alone keeps the page (relatively) short.
> 

The reason this was added was because people would paste in ridiculously long
comments that made the comments section huge and unmanageable.

And by ridiculously long comments, there was one I saw that is now deleted that
was hundreds of lines long.

If this change is reverted, I would like to see something replace it rather than
just leaving it the way it was.

Mark Weiman