View list of comments with filtering

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The Problem

One of the great things about Github pull requests is the ability to comment on code. In fact, we love this feature so much that sometimes we take advantage of it and dump 50+ comments on our teammate's PR.

The ease by which we have the ability to leave comments on code is good, yes, but with Github's current interface, it is very difficult to keep track of all the comments on a PR after about 10 have been made. In fact, it's even harder to find all the comments when some of them are attached to snippets of code (which is usually the case). Users end up having to scroll and scroll and sometimes even un-collapse sections of commits in order to see all the comments. Then users are unsure which they have resolved and which they haven't.

The Request

Here's the request. What if there was a standalone comment section in Github where a user could see a listing off all the comments that have been made on a PR. This list could simply be a dropdown or an expandable table. This dropdown/table could also contain some meta data such as total number of comments and total number of unresolved. In addition, the user could filter out the comments to only the ones that are unresolved. When a user clicks on a comment listing in that dropdown/table, they would be navigated to the full comment in the PR.

The Result

This would give the user the ability to...

1. View the total number of comments
2. View the total number of unresolved comments
3. Easily identify and then navigate to the unresolved comments that they still need to address

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