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[weiran]

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[mmangione]

I love this app. Happy to jump in and help out. Where does this feature stand?

[PerpetualCreativity]

I think we first need to think of how we want to trigger this action. Swiping and tapping on comments already has a meaning. Should we bind adding a comment to a long-press action?

[jalxp]

@PerpetualCreativity I've seen more than one action on each swipe around for stuff like this. Take as an example the Apollo app for reddit, which looks pretty smooth. Nowadays most users expect a contextual menu on long presses as that's what natively happens on iOS.
Unless you are suggestion adding this exact menu where one of the entries is the reply! 😄

[PerpetualCreativity]

@jalxp I completely forgot about those kinds of swipe actions, and was talking about the contextual menu. (Another example of multiple actions on a swipe is the Mail app with default settings, by the way.) I think your idea, of adding reply as an additional swipe action, is the best solution.

[ktechmidas]

@PerpetualCreativity As a user who didn’t know we couldn’t reply yet here’s what I did in order to try to find it

• swipe left
• Swipe right
• Long press

[ErikThiart]

Why not let user long press on the comment they want to reply to.

Easy peasy

Long Press, menu pops up, Reply

Tap reply,

Write reply

[wesley-harding]

Being a bit blunt. This thread has become a bit of bike shedding; focusing on the gesture to initiate reply rather than how we make it work technically. Wiring up the trigger action is the the easiest part of this feature.

I really enjoy this app, but without comments I'll end up using another app.

I'm guessing we need to do the following to make this work:

• Codify the comment submit HTTP request

• Create a "submit comment" screen

• Create a "comment submitted" screen or other UX indicator.

Bonus

• Insert the newly submitted comment into the comment tree. Either a full refresh or a selective insert.

• Handle edit

• Handle common errors