This is a reboot of https://itch.io/t/6218205/view-full-community-posts-history-older-comments since I realized I had posted it the community sub-forum (ambiguously named “Questions & Support”).
I also opened a GitHub issue: https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1900
Currently, when looking at a user profile (itch.io/profile/[username], which is the default landing page for non-creators but can be accessed by clicking on the top-left link on creator’s pages too), there is only a Recent community posts section that only shows posts until a certain period (currently the oldest displayed on my profile is 48 days ago so I suspect the limit is 2 months).
There is no pagination system nor “Show more…” button so I cannot see older comments than that.
While I understand the feature may limit old history view to prevent people from digging too far into other users’ history, I mainly use the feature to check my own comments and remember on which games I have already commented, so if there’s a privacy reason, the full history could simply be shown for the currently logged in user. And if the reason is technical, it could be implemented for everyone at once.
Basic features:
- Pagination (I prefer this over “Show more…” button which may imply having to click on it many times, Dropbox history style, causing social network style scrolling of hell)
(While we could show the whole history at once, I suspect that you initially limited the timespan (or number) of comments displayed to avoid loading too much content on the page, so pagination would avoid this issue.)
Extra features:
- search post by content text (make sure to search “All words” by default to avoid the “Exact phrase” issue currently in forum search: https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1591)
- search post by game title (same remark)
- filter posts by time range