Le 09/03/2017 à 15:58, Nicholas Sielicki via aur-dev a écrit : > On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 22:09 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Every now and then, someone will post a huge dump (log, error messages, >> etc.) to the AUR comments. Besides being usually useless, those comments >> force everyone to scroll for a while before getting to the next comment. >> >> What do you guys think about adding something like this to limit the >> vertical space taken by such comments? >> >>> #news div p { >>> max-height: 10em; >>> overflow: auto; >>> } >> If the idea is approved, I can send a proper patch ;] > About one year ago this change was proposed and committed to limit the height > of comments on AUR pages. (If you're looking for it in your inbox, this post > took place on the aur-general list, not on aur-dev.) > > I'm posting because I find this behavior more annoying than helpful.
From my POV, it’s both. Because it has pros and cons. > Take a look at the following AUR page as an example: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-next-git/ > > The biggest issue that I have is that if a comment is truncated in height, > there's no way to expand the comment such that the whole comment is visible. That’s the real issue, not the fact they are truncated. > 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… > 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. > 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. That looks like a real solution, and what I was going to answer as a proposition after starting reading your post. But it’s already here. :) > 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". Disagree, I think the AUR is cluttered with useless comments, but this might really depends on which packages you make use of. > 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. Like I said above, those should belong to paste services. > Not to mention, comments on aurweb are already paginated after 10 > comments-- that alone keeps the page (relatively) short. Not if someone do what you says, i.e. pasting it’s full log of trying to build whatever program. Regards, Bruno
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