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In discussion forums with a nested comment section, I’ve always wanted a “show context” feature that shows the FULL context, defined as:

• All ancestors of a comment
• All siblings of both the comment and its ancestors that were posted chronologically before the comment or the ancestor they are a sibling of.

Example of the full comment tree, with [timestamp]:

• [1:00]
  • [3:00]
    • [6:00]
  • [4:00]
    • [5:00]
      • [8:00] COMMENT!
    • [7:00]
  • [10:00]
• [2:00]
• [9:00]

Example of the full context:

• [1:00]
  • [3:00]
  • [4:00]
    • [5:00]
      • [8:00] COMMENT!

It lets you see the comment’s ancestors (what most sites show for “context”), plus some additional context relating to what other comments were visible at the time – because it’s fairly common for people to refer to a sibling comment (“as [person] said…”). At the same time, it doesn’t break the chronological order or show entire comment threads that are irrelevant.

-[[smichel17]]