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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year ago·#453

The more ideas there are in a discussion, the further the form for top-level ideas is pushed down. Then people don’t know how to submit a new idea and comment on an existing one instead, even if it’s unrelated, as happened with #448. So I need to make this clearer.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 2 months ago·#1764

The way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 2 months ago·#1768

Facebook does it this way, too.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 2 months ago·#1767

Reddit is a bit different because they have multiple subreddits/communities, but each community has top-level posts which people can then comment on. They have a completely separate page/UI for top-level posts. And then directly underneath a top-level post, there’s a textarea saying “Join the conversation”.

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Benjamin Davies, 3 days ago·#2748

Any progress on this? Scrolling to the bottom to submit new ideas is annoying.

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Works well 👍

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Benjamin Davies, 3 days ago·#2749

It might make sense to have the new top-level idea form at the top, in the meantime. Compared to the current design, this would invite the creation of more top-level ideas.

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There could be a floating button on the side that takes you to the bottom of the page.

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There could be a side pane that stays visible while scrolling content.

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No room for that, at least not on mobile.

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Done as of 4922b8c. The form now sticks to the bottom of the discussion page.

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