Interested to see what solutions for this are proposed that don’t involve re-rooting the comment tree from a lower depth. Tesseract is susceptible to this on mobile as well, and I’ve decreased the left padding as far as it’ll go as a partial workaround.

I’m not crazy about having to re-root the comment tree like Reddit does (or at least used to do) beyond a certain depth, so hoping to hear some better suggestions I can borrow.

I can’t think of a solution that isn’t re-rooting in one form or another. Do you know of any app that has done it differently?

Not off my head, no. Which is why I was asking if there were any other alternatives. I don’t particularly like that solution.

Edit: Since I know the depth on a per-comment basis, maybe I could reverse it in CSS beyond a certain point and have them start going right to left? (spitballing here)

We should start a ridiculously long comment thread here so people can see how the various Lemmy apps out there handle and render things…

Lol, well, I’ll keep the ball rolling with this reply.

It took me a while to notice this behavior (on any client) because once a comment thread gets that deep, it’s usually a slap fight I wouldn’t bother reading anyway lol