"Show thread" button missing in glitch-soc

[koyuawsmbrtn]

The "Show thread" button that is usually present in vanilla Mastodon is missing in glitch-soc

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• I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• This bugs also occur on vanilla Mastodon

[WTFSocial]

yes, thank you

[compufox]

if this was to be added it would be nice if it was behind an app setting

[ClearlyClaire]

I'm not sure there is much sense adding this, this adds no information or functionality, it's just a different way (which takes more space) to display information that is already there.

[koyuawsmbrtn]

The advantage of having this button is that it makes it obvious if people were posting a thread rather than it's just a post people comment on. I am not sure where this information should be, it's not very intuitive.

[Cassolotl]

I came here to ask for this, because we had it on queer.party and it was very helpful, but now I don't have it on eldritch.cafe and it's really stressful and confusing!

[tribela]

Glitch has a dedicated icon for it, But I want that show thread button too

[Cassolotl]

Glitch has a dedicated icon for it, But I want that show thread button too

I think I learned that a long time ago when I first tried out a Glitch instance, and I've been using Glitch again now for a few weeks, and I still haven't seen/noticed it. So whatever it is, it's not very intuitive!

Okay I just went to check and I've found it:

I think I didn't clock it because a speech bubble just means "speech", not "reply". Also, it was on some posts and not on some posts, so I was like, "what does that mean, I can't tell from context"? (I genuinely thought it wasn't the "thread" icon until I saw the hovertext.) When something is a reply I can tell because it has @[username] in it and that's how I check whether something is a reply, but when it's part of a thread that's kind of a different animal, so I think it makes sense to have its own indicator that means "this post is part of a longer thread from the same person".

Edit: Also, I just realised a major flaw - it doesn't show on the first post of a thread! So if someone boosts only the first post, unless they manually type "A thread" at the bottom, there's no way to know that it's not a standalone post. This is stressful!