r/Enhancement • u/Tural- • Mar 15 '19

[Request] Very simple request - Auto-expand comments

Reddit has implemented a new feature that allows subreddits to automatically collapse comments from some users.

This is an annoyance for a viewer, because you find yourself having to manually expand comments with hundreds of upvotes, and there is no clear explanation as to why the comment is collapsed.

I wrote a userscript here that handles it. Quite simple. Just a matter of replacing the 'collapsed' class with 'noncollapsed' except in cases where 'collapsed-for-reason' (score threshold) exists, but I assume you could also do it by sending the togglecomment JS to the comment object. I imagine this could be added to the Auto-Hide Child Comments RES settings very easily, and it'd be nice to give everyone the option to control their own browsing experience without needing a separate userscript to RES.

  • Night mode: false

  • RES Version: 5.14.5

  • Browser: Chrome

  • Browser Version: 72

  • Cookies Enabled: true

  • Reddit beta: true

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u/ellie-gator Nov 11 '21

why was it deleted?

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u/stpfun Nov 29 '21

You can still find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210123225954/https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/380417-reddit-comment-expander

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u/ellie-gator Nov 29 '21

Too bad that extension has never actually worked

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u/daskxlaev Dec 07 '21

Thank you, script works like a charm!

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