Feature request: Highlight new comments when going back to a post (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kinda like boost does, when there is a new comment on a post I've already seen, the comment is colored. Can you do something like that?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'd like this option, a lot.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't believe it's technically possible on Lemmy to specifically highlight unread comments like you could on Reddit, which is a huge shame. But some other apps do highlight comments made the last 15 minutes, which is better than nothing and still a good feature.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Okay then

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Added to the roadmap.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't believe it's technically possible on Lemmy to specifically highlight unread comments

Are you sure about this? Connect and Thunder reliably show the number of unread comments in a given thread. Is there really no way to find out which comments these are?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's what I've been told. You can see how many new comments have been made since your last visit, but not distinguish which ones they actually are.

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