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by jimmySixDOF 1524 days ago
One of the most annoying things is to open a thread and be forced to click all over the place to see comments rolled up under each other. You can't even search comments inside a single post until you have somehow unwound everything. Thats why I use Sync for Reddit and will logout proper if they dump 3rd party clients.
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'reddit enhancement suite' has an expand all button. You can then search with the regular browser search feature within the page.
Reddit without RES (also uBlock Origin) is reddit that's only 50-75% usable. Though I would also say old.reddit is infinitely superior to the newer reddit interface as well.
I agree - I mostly was using Reddit on mobile for years for this reason (using Reddit is Fun on android) because I was too lazy to setup RES on desktop. Once I got a proper config setup + constant redirect to old.reddit.com (was already using Ublock) the site is a millions times better even without logging in. And of course even if you make a throwaway username and do a little subreddit subscription customization that makes it even better.
I love Sync for Reddit. This script loads more comments inline:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5578-reddit-load-continue-...

For some reason the icons are large, so I tweaked the CSS to make it smaller. Don't recall my exact change though >_>

Video of it in action: https://imgur.com/a/lOansZO

old.reddit.com fixes that, no?
No, they've changed something recently where sufficiently nested comments with replies now seem to show 'click to see more' thing as well
As per the other reply to you, I'm pretty sure this has always been a thing.

At least in the past it was a 'non-gold' restriction[1] that you could only set your account to load up to 500 comments automatically.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/3z7xac/can_i_load_all... (could not find an official recent source so things may have changed)

Another change we could be seeing. Reddit allows mods to collapse comment threads as of 03-12-2019.

> such as an ability to auto-collapse comments by users[0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/b0a8he/dete...

That's always been the case, it should not be as bad as new Reddit though
Let's go all the way back to i.reddit.com