Scrolling issues in HN comments

[Tintedfireglass]

1.When comments have been collapsed before all the subcomments load the UI goes into a frenzy trying to load and simultaneously collapse the thread making it unusable for a minute or so if your internet is slow

video :

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/884641872008577064/1087443576511807599/screen-20230321-000156.mp4

2.Even when not collapsed the new loaded threads when loaded scroll the thread down making it unusable for slow internet connections

video :

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/884641872008577064/1087444711704375377/screen-20230224-181640.mp42.mp4

as both issues are basically the same I combined them into one issue

I'm not sure how a workaround could be possible as the app is fundamentally designed in such a way that this is bound to occur.

thanks
:)

[Mosc]

The first issue is a duplicate of #84, which should be solved by v2.0.0 due to the collapsing logic being rewritten.

The second issue is fair, but seems difficult to solve in a satisfactory way. We could just not render the thread until every comment has loaded, but that just makes the user wait for (possibly) a very long time. And although perhaps ideally we'd not have to split the loading over lots of different calls in the first place, this just happens to be the way that the Hacker News API is designed. Do you have any suggestions, even if you were to ignore the fundamental design?

[Mosc]

Closing this for now. The first mentioned issue has been resolved, and the second issue, we've determined, is kind of inherent to the way comment trees are loaded. Still open to alternative suggestions though.