Show more comment context (context=3)

[naught101]

Requirements

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Describe the feature you'd like

If I go to my inbox, I often see comments that don't make sense because I don't have context. If I click the "show context" button, then I get sent to the parent comment (i.e. my comment), but often even that doesn't have enough context, so I have to click "show context" again (and sometimes a 3rd time) before I remember WTF is going on.

old.reddit had a nifty feature that was a URL argument like ?context=3, which would show the comment (with a highlight), plus the (up to) three parent comments. Like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/AusPol/comments/1jl0jhm/what_the_hell_happened_to_the_liberals_this/mk2n2ii/?context=3

In the inbox, it also has an explicit "show context" button on comments, which defaults to context=3, which is perfect, IMO.

This would be great to have on Lemmy. Making it a URL argument is nice too, because it lets you share a specific comment with a custom amount of context, whcih can be useful sometimes.

As a side quest for this feature, the UI for comments in the inbox currently has a 🔗 button at two places, one after the post title, and one at the bottom. They BOTH link to the comment's parent. I think the top one should link to the comment itself, and the bottom one should link to context=3.

So 3 main components:

• Implement context=3 as a URL argument
• Change the "show context" link to point to the comment URL with context=3 by default
• Change the link at the top of comments in the inbox to just link to the comment URL

[dessalines]

I don't have time to add this, but someone else can.

[tgrub2]

I'm on it