[ENHANCEMENT] Comment section improvements

[SethCram]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• yes, the comment section isn't well polished and the code not well consolidated

Describe the solution you'd like

• various comment section improvements

Describe alternatives you've considered

• leaving it as-is

Additional context

• originally taken from [ENHANCEMENT] Comment section for every post #9 to allow its closure

Development

• allow query posts by user by their comment username

  • easy to use a link and query by username

• replace comment update text with post edit button

  • easy change to text to icon and color to css

• if user not logged in, redirect them to login page if try to reply to comment

  • used window.location.replace
    • didnt allow easy back-nav since went to src of website first
  • used window.location.assign() for easy back nav

• consolidate the 2 instances of voting icons into 1 comp

  • performed during [ENHANCEMENT] Implement search capabilities  #7

• allow comment deletion

  • would have to delete all reply comments too?
    • didn't do this, left them alone for future usage
  • accomplished during [ENHANCEMENT] Add an admin account  #14

• change red badge from -1 to -3

  • more difficult to lower other people's score
  • ensure user's score only decreases by -5 and not -8
    • should be only -5 since catch all badges given for a negative score and set scoreChange to -5
  • should verify thru:
    • setting env to DEV to get 15m access token timeout
    • login with admin account client side
    • create a comment on one of their own posts client side
    • create a -2 vote for comment from admin via postman
    • login to another act client side
    • downvote comment to get -3
    • should dynamically give red badge and persist (check)
    • should lower post author's score by -5 dynamically and persist
      • didn't do so dynamically when a reply or root comment's badge was changed
      • i believe this was why sidebar was taking context user instead of sidebarUser w/ sidebar user was null
        • bc sidebar user wasn't updated dynamically, but context user was
      • but if that's the case, if comment reached new badge and wasn't the context user, it prolly wouldn't have been dynamically updated
        • and it wasn't, as seen w/ the red badge was achieved thru a final vote cast by not the author of the post or comment
        • so can't go back to how i was doing it
        • need to update sidebar user rep score and badgeName dynamically
  • changed structuring of sidebar component to be more sensical
    • needa make sure everytime retrieve axios headers, if context user updated must propagate the new refresh tokens
    • can't have two context dispatches in same method or else earlier one overwritten?? not sure
  • if alota votes or comments posted, also had to ensure local rep change propogated from Vote or Comment all the way up to sidebar
    • check at root before passing into sidebar that the author changed is actually the sidebar user

• compress root comment replies until link with number of replies expanded via btn

• don't allow editing of multiple comments at once

• align the RHS of the comments to a particular spot

  • should always be in the same spot regardless of comment length/size

• drag user's screen down to where comment placed once created

  • particularly useful if alota comments

• display comment author's reputation or mini badge beside their comment

• don't let authors of comments vote on them

• determine how to display + get author profile pics

• delete all post comments and votes when post deleted?

• dont delete all user comments and votes when user deleted (unrelated)

• Change score requirement for a comment badge to half that of post and user