LJ Thread Unfolder

Last update on Mar 3, 2008

Expands nested discussion threads in place

Improves LiveJournal's handling of long threads. It allows loading nested comments in place.

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Now supports Opera 9

last update: march 2008, to support LJ changes, works with "lihgt" style




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Paul1149 user
Posted Mar 28, 2008

Just installed. Seems to be working fine. FF2.

a MUCH needed extension. Thanks.
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Holly user
Posted Apr 13, 2007

Mine is doing the same as Olivias. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling a few times, even restarted mozilla...still not working.

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Olivia user
Posted Mar 25, 2007

Both thread unfolder scripts malfunction after a while. Why is this? I'll click "unfold" and it starts loading but then replicates the "unfold" and never loads. The script used to work and now doesn't.

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Henrik N admin
Posted Oct 16, 2006

Tim: Cool. There's still no "Unfold all" in your script, right? Or am I missing it? My solution is very hackish because I didn't want to understand everything, just to make it work. ;)

Oh, this latest script of yours turns every "(Thread)" into "(Thread - Unfold)" even when the thread was never folded.

Lastly, you could replace your addGlobalStyle with the built-in GM_addStyle :)

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Timothy Babych script's author
Posted Oct 16, 2006

Finally updated to be able to:

* Expand nested threads in nested threads
* Expand group of comments with one-click

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Timothy Babych script's author
Posted Sep 28, 2006

Thanks, Henrik!

had that on my todo list for a long time, but could not find the time. The problem is I want to do it with one Ajax request, not with many, like you did…

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Henrik N admin
Posted Sep 9, 2006

Modified this script to add an "Unfold all" option: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5552

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stufff user
Posted Sep 2, 2006

Doesn't work for me viewing something in my layout (I use the S2 system and the Generator layout). I only get the Unfold option on comments that are not folded, and clicking on it does some very odd things to my color scheme (I have a black background and green text, it changes text to black on the black background, making it unreadable. It also puts a white border around the page and makes username links turn blue). I do not get the option to unfold at all next to the folded comments (the ones where you can only see the subject line). If you would like to see the behavior I'm talking about, take a look at http://stufff.livejournal.com

In other styles, ones that are mostly left to the default settings, the unfold options do appear, though sometimes it will double or tripple itself.

Automatically unfolding all nested comments when I view a page would also be awesome. Thank you for your time in trying to create a workaround for this annoying "feature" that LJ should allow users to turn off, if not leave off by default.

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Genkitty user
Posted Mar 16, 2006

It's an improvement, but I wish I had something to open /all/ nested comments in-place instead of one at a time! Thank you for the hard work, though, and I'll be keeping the script. ^_^

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