Yup, your use case is exactly the reason for its existence.
That feature will be back soon in some capacity. The execution and locale of the previous feature never really made sense. I'm actively thinking about good solutions now. In some sense, getting rid of it is ripping the band aid which will allow us to get it right for real.
Suggestions on the implementation are definitely welcome, but I'm definitely considering some of these highly "cohesion"-oriented features to be more my responsibility these days.
Really great! I agree, the feature wasn't in the right place but I can't think of a better place right now.
It could be part of a larger "save comments" feature in the future: as a user I'm able to save/bookmark a comment and see the replies to the comment I saved, but if I save an article to the reading list I can then follow all the comments of such article.
There's an issue about bookmarking comments opened by @flexdinesh
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Problem
Dev has grown into an open-minded discussion platform for developers from all backgrounds. Often, discussions in posts grow organically. Some comments are worthy of being a post on its own. Some comments highlight important points and references for the reader. There were times I wanted to bookmark a comment but I ended up bookmarking the post because we don't have the feature yet. Now, when I go through my bookmarks, I couldn't remember why I bookmarked a post and have to go through all the comments (and child-comments) to figure out why. Also, if I quickly want to recollect one of the comments, I couldn't remember on which post it was.
Solution
Ability to bookmark a comment and if it's not too much, I'd like to give each bookmark my own title/desc for reference.
Yup, your use case is exactly the reason for its existence.
That feature will be back soon in some capacity. The execution and locale of the previous feature never really made sense. I'm actively thinking about good solutions now. In some sense, getting rid of it is ripping the band aid which will allow us to get it right for real.
Suggestions on the implementation are definitely welcome, but I'm definitely considering some of these highly "cohesion"-oriented features to be more my responsibility these days.
Really great! I agree, the feature wasn't in the right place but I can't think of a better place right now.
It could be part of a larger "save comments" feature in the future: as a user I'm able to save/bookmark a comment and see the replies to the comment I saved, but if I save an article to the reading list I can then follow all the comments of such article.
There's an issue about bookmarking comments opened by @flexdinesh :
Problem Dev has grown into an open-minded discussion platform for developers from all backgrounds. Often, discussions in posts grow organically. Some comments are worthy of being a post on its own. Some comments highlight important points and references for the reader. There were times I wanted to bookmark a comment but I ended up bookmarking the post because we don't have the feature yet. Now, when I go through my bookmarks, I couldn't remember why I bookmarked a post and have to go through all the comments (and child-comments) to figure out why. Also, if I quickly want to recollect one of the comments, I couldn't remember on which post it was.
Solution Ability to bookmark a comment and if it's not too much, I'd like to give each bookmark my own title/desc for reference.