Indicator for hidden comments

[Nutomic]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

Users often get surprised because some comments seem to be missing under a post. This happens most often because comments dont have any language specified and are tagged as "Undetermined" language. So if that language isnt enabled in settings, lots of comments appear to be missing.

Describe the solution you'd like

To make users aware of this, it would be useful to show messages like the following:

• 2 comments hidden in language Undetermined which is not enabled in your settings
• 1 comment hidden in language French which is not enabled in your settings

Next to these messages there could be a button "temporarily show all messages". Additionally, clicking individual messages might enable the respective language. Helping users to view comments in "undetermined" language is clearly the priority here.

Similar messages could also be added to indicate hidden comments from bot accounts or blocked users.

[aschrijver]

I would mention that the Languages listbox in Settings would be more intuitive if it was a list of checkbox items. Now the way to select multiple languages is by holding the Ctrl-key and creating the multi-select, which is awkward and regular users may not readily think of.

[dessalines]

Now the way to select multiple languages is by holding the Ctrl-key and creating the multi-select, which is awkward and regular users may not readily think of.

Its using a standard browser html multi-select, that's going to be dependent on the browser you're using.

Users often get surprised because some comments seem to be missing under a post. This happens most often because comments dont have any language specified and are tagged as "Undetermined" language. So if that language isnt enabled in settings, lots of comments appear to be missing.

The front-end user can't know about missing comments, unless we remove the language filtering on the back-end, and move all the language filtering to the front end. It has pros and cons, but would require more work for front-end devs to check the users languages, and scan every comment to see if its in their list, then add some kind of hidden indicator.

[hybridhavoc]

My recommendation is that Undetermined language posts be included by default, and that filtering out Undetermined language posts should be set to a separate toggle from the language selection setting.

[Nutomic]

With Lemmy 0.17.3 undetermined language is automatically always enabled.

LemmyNet/lemmy#2851