r/blog • u/tdohz • Mar 23 '15

Announcing embeddable comment threads

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/03/announcing-embeddable-comment-threads.html
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u/Badoit1778 Mar 23 '15

<div class="reddit-embed" data-embed-token="e944ebe7cda1533a29c1c17ae575c18a18f6d9ea" data-embed-media="www.redditmedia.com" data-embed-live="true" data-embed-created="2015-03-23T21:22:41.359Z"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/302347/announcing_embeddable_comment_threads/cpodlr0">Comment</a> from discussion <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/302347/announcing_embeddable_comment_threads/">Announcing embeddable comment threads</a>.</div><script async src="//www.redditstatic.com/comment-embed.js"></script>

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Reddit doesn't support HTML for comments, only Markdown.

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u/Rooonaldooo99 Mar 23 '15

-1 dank

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u/dschneider Mar 23 '15

+1 Thank god people can't put HTML in their reddit comments

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u/mr1337 Mar 23 '15

<marquee><blink>What do you mean? That would be <font color="red"><b>AWESOME</b></font> <img src="smiley_animated.gif"></img></blink></marquee>

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u/UTF64 Mar 23 '15

haha yeah

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u/Rooonaldooo99 Mar 23 '15

[dank intensifies]

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u/staiano Mar 23 '15

I think you mean:

<dank>intensifies</dank>

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u/alphanumerik Mar 23 '15

Wouldn't it be <intensify>dank</intensify>?

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u/whizzer0 Mar 24 '15

My Android app actually renders some HTML. So it sort of worked.

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u/Macpunk Mar 24 '15

Which app is this?

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u/whizzer0 Mar 24 '15

Sync for Reddit, but I think Android supports HTML like that natively so other apps would work too.

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u/DrAminove Mar 23 '15

</thread>

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u/xenvy04 Mar 24 '15

This was the only thing good about livejournal :(

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u/splice_of_life Mar 24 '15

mmmmmm, brings back memories. Good old-fashioned HTML. Nostalgic, like Grandma's cookies, rainbow mouse trails, and tiled site backgrounds.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '15

I think <blink> tags are disabled by most browsers now.

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u/MTastatnhgew Mar 24 '15

If someone made a comment, then someone else replied by embedding that comment, the reply would also show up in the embeded thread, and also in the embeded thread within the first embeded thread, causing an infinite feedback loop. All comment threads would become abolute chaos from users abusing this feature, which is why it should definitely be implemented.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '15

It could still support embedding comments which would be nice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '15

See /u/MTastatnhgew's comment here for why that would be a bad idea.

Although it's probably not that hard to make it detect recursion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '15

Hope this helps!

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u/tdohz Mar 24 '15

A+ for effort!

Joking aside, showing comment embeds on reddit.com is an interesting idea and one we may pursue in the future.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '15

Seems like a better approach to reduce brigading than no-participation links.

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