Hierarchical Commenting System Like Reddit

[cfisher440]

I’d really like to have a commenting system like Reddit for the site I’m working on. Has anyone been able to accomplish this and be willing to share with the community how you did it (or show us the app in editor mode)?

As far as the upvoting/downvoting part goes, I have that down. My biggest problem is in regards to the hierarchical structure. Person A can comment on Person B. Then Person C can comment on Person B, and so on and the comment indents a little bit each time.

Also, it’s worth noting, I know Disqus is an option. I would just prefer to do this using Bubble.

[robrian15]

could you share how you did the upvoting?

[ikkyu1755]

Have you done this yet? My idea is to do a reusable element but I’m not sure about it so much. Please update!

[cfisher440]

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I quickly put together an example. The comment functionality is very basic. The like/unlike functionality is a little more complicated. Also there’s more than one way to do this. i’m doing it using states. It’s worth noting I made it so that you must be logged in to like/unlike a blog post. I could explain it all. But I think it’s best to study this demo and duplicate its functionalities.

[cfisher440]

I have not figured out how to make it like Reddit. The best way I can think of, although not what I want, would be to have several tables.
Comment - First comment to start thread goes here
Response1 - If you respond to a comment from the Comment table, it goes here
Response2 - If you respond to a comment from Response1 table, it goes here
Response3 - If you respond to a comment from Response2 table, it goes here
etc…

I then created a repeating group for Comment with a repeating group within that repeating group for Response1. When I get some time, I’ll try to update my example to show that

Comments section

I quickly put together an example. The comment functionality is very basic. The like/unlike functionality is a little more complicated. Also there’s more than one way to do this. i’m doing it using states. It’s worth noting I made it so that you must be logged in to like/unlike a blog post. I could explain it all. But I think it’s best to study this demo and duplicate its functionalities.