I’d like a create a commenting system that can be nested infinitely. Does anyone have an example of how this could be accomplished.
To give a little more clarity to what I’m wanting to do:
Comment
Reply to Comment
Reply to Reply
Reply to Reply
Reply to Reply
etc…
It’s easy enough to create a “Comments” table and then create a “reply1” table which is connected to the Comments table. Then create a “reply2” table which is connected to the “reply1” table. But I’m thinking there must be a more dynamic way of doing something like this.
I just created a video for you to illustrate how this is done.
Skip the basics by clicking 4:43 in the video.
Hope this helps.
What you can do to make it look cleaner is only have a speech bubble icon instead of the input together with the post reply button always showing and being in the way of the reader. So the speech bubble icon unhides that group, that is normally collapsed when hidden.
Thanks for creating the video. That was great. I really appreciate you taking the time to do that. This is a better way compared to what I was thinking as it consolidates all the replies into one table and seems to solve the problem of doing infinite nesting from a database point-of-view. This solves half of the problem.
Unfortunately, to do things this way, I need to create a table within a table within a table, and so on using the Bubble editor. This makes the amount of nesting finite within the UI. Ideally, I’d like to be able to nest comments infinitely within the UI. So, as I mentioned, your solution seems to solve half of the problem by making nested replies infinite within the database, but, like I mentioned, not within the UI. So my challenge to you is this. Is there a way to make the nesting infinite within the UI?
I’m thinking somehow there would only be one table on the editor for the replies and, somehow, there would have to be conditional formatting to indent the replies of replies, replies of replies of replies, and so on.
You mentioned Reddit, at the beginning of the video. That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Something like Reddit. Or if this was a to-do list app, listing one main to-do and then being able to list sub to-dos infinitely.
If you’re able to come up with a solution for this, it would be a huge win for the community, at large, since I feel many people could benefit from such a solution.
What made this a little more difficult is the setup of having comments with a list of replies as well as replies with lists of replies. This setup is however the setup that scales the best I believe ;).
I like what you did here. Unfortunately, it’s not something I would use on the project I’m working on. It doesn’t totally meet my requirements.
From a UI point-of-view and functionally speaking, I want to be able to see all nested replies with proper formatting. Again, probably the best example I can think of would be the way Reddit does their commenting system if you’ve seen that before.
