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Comments: auto-expand, translate, sort by newest, and search
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Description
Feature Request: Comments Enhancement Suite
Description
Add comprehensive comment improvements: auto-expand all replies, auto-translate to your language, sort by newest first by default, and search within comments.
Why
Multiple scripts exist:
- YouTube Auto Expand, Translate & Sort Comments (GreasyFork) — all three in one
- YCS (YouTube Comment Search) — search through all comments
- ImprovedTube already expands description but not comments
Preferred behavior
- Auto-expand all comments and replies
- Auto-translate comments to user's language
- Default sort: Newest First (overrides YouTube default)
- Search box to find text in all comments
- Show reply counts inline
- "Expand all" button for replies
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the extension code responsible for YouTube comments and review how comment loading, replies, translation, sorting, and search are currently handled. Done would require implementing and validating all requested behaviors, including reply counts and an expand-all control.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100