I’m new to Lemmy, days not weeks. Liking it so far and I’m trying to contribute in a positive way to the instance.

I have one usability issue, trying to figure out which replies in a post are new since I last read it. I see the number like (4 New) telling me how many, but not which.

Sorting by “New” hardly helps because of the threaded display. Threading is a good thing, IMO, since it preserves the flow of the conversation. But new replies to older replies get buried with a “New” sort. When the post has only a few replies total, I can keep up simply by re-scanning the whole thread. On more popular posts that becomes infeasible.

Please don’t beat me up too bad if I’m missing an obvious thing! I saw the user settings, “Show Read Posts”, but that seems to be post level, not reply level.

Editing because I am an idiot: I use the web interface through https://sh.itjust.works/.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 小时前

      In that case, hit the bell icon on your top right, and select between “All” and “Unread”. It shows replies to your posts and comments.

      • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        3 小时前

        That’s just replies to my comments though, isn’t it? What I am after is to see just the new posts to a thread, which mostly are from other people.

        • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 小时前

          Correct, I thought that’s what you were after. Beyond that, I do not know. It seems that comments have some sort order in posts, but this seems to vary between new and top. Community specific, maybe?

          • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksOP
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            2 小时前

            Gotcha, thanks. I had a browse over the GIT issues too for Lemmy. I didn’t stumble into the right search terms to find much about this though.