Youtube comments suggestion

[dimqua]

You can make youtube comments on the site look more youtube-like by placing the publishing date and the number of likes to the bottom of users comments.
This is an example from SkyTube app:

And probably there is no need for +/- buttons, at least for YouTube comments.

[omarroth]

Looks good!

As for +/-, it looks to me like it would be replaced by a hide replies. Should they be removed for another reason?

[omarroth]

Added with 650b44a.

[dimqua]

As for +/-, it looks to me like it would be replaced by a hide replies.

You can't hide all the replies by using +/-, while keeping the original post visible.

[Jtasiu]

Added with 650b44a

@omarroth I think this made comments stop showing anymore whenever JS is disabled. Is there some way to still show comments when JS is off like it was before?

[omarroth]

Reddit comments have used JS since c7a46cd, and YouTube comments have used JS since they were added with 1eb7066. The reason why is because comments were the largest source of latency for loading the /watch page, adding about 3 seconds, so they were split off into a separate request.

It might be possible to try to reintegrate them back into the initial page load, but obviously it would reintroduce that issue. You also wouldn't be able to view replies to comments, or minimize YouTube or Reddit comments, since that functionality also uses JS.

If you'd like to download comments for offline viewing or for use in another application, you can with /api/v1/comments/:videoID. Here's an example, and more info is available about that here.

I think it's unfortunate that JS is necessary, and obviously I would prefer that it wasn't (the way it was originally), but I hope I was able to explain why it currently works the way it does, sorry I couldn't be more help.

[Jtasiu]

I see. Is the latency a problem for the user or the server? If it's on user side I think those with JS off wouldn't mind a few extra seconds. If you can somehow show comments back in the initial page load that would be amazing it was a great feature. I could also view replies to comments even when JS was off. Would noscript tags be able to do something here? Or some way to have comments in initial page load if JS off is detected and the way it is now if JS is detected on?

[dimqua]

those with JS off wouldn't mind a few extra seconds

+1