Comment by GhoulishGrin on 19/01/2021 at 22:43 UTC

46 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Updates to notifications, avatar enhancements, a better best sort, and more

Can you get rid of the avatar box following when I scroll through someone’s posts under their user profile? It jumps down as I scroll and takes up the majority of the screen. When I try to scroll back up it takes up even more barely allowing me to see the content as I scroll back up.

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Comment by broke_for_free at 19/01/2021 at 23:23 UTC

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It is especially worse for older phones that don’t have the screen height of new phones.

The avatars honestly take up too much screen real estate for such a gimmick that the vast majority of people probably couldn’t care about.

Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2021 at 01:35 UTC

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u/BurritoJusticeLeague please look into this. My modern PC (i7, 16GB RAM) struggles to load the comments section of any post on desktop web. GIFs/videos are especially bad. Is the video player blocking the event loop? Regardless, now collapsing a comment can leave the cursor hovering over an avatar which bogs down the page again, because user info is lazy-loaded. I can't imagine the struggle for users with poor hardware and limited broadband access. I just want to fap efficiently.

Comment by N4CHEM at 20/01/2021 at 06:25 UTC

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This! I have a 4 inch display on my phone and the avatars+username take up the whole screen when browsing a user profile. We need our screen space back, please.

Comment by hygcgf at 20/01/2021 at 13:08 UTC

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Another user asking for this. The avatars take up too much space on my phone’s screen and make it very hard to scroll through a user’s profile