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LQT should have a "expand all comments/replies" button
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Would be handy on "busy" pages such as http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_feedback for example.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:33 PM
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(In reply to comment #0)

Would be handy on "busy" pages such as
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_feedback for example.

Indeed.

Currently, when a discussion page has lots of comments, it is common to find links like "Show 99 replies" all over the talk page. This means that the most relevant comments in a thread (the recent ones) cannot be found through CTRL+F, unless a user expand all topics manually.

So, it would be good idea to provide users some sort of
"Expand all comments on this page"
link.

PS: I found this bug when I was going to create a new one about this, inspired by the following comment on Village pump:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28policy%29&action=historysubmit&diff=439667705&oldid=439662404

Jdforrester-WMF lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Aug 4 2016, 11:34 PM
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LiquidThreads has been replaced by StructuredDiscussions on all Wikimedia production wikis (except one, which will be done soon). It is no longer under active development or maintenance, so I'm re-classifying all open LQT tasks as "Lowest" priority.