Interested to see what solutions for this are proposed that don't involve re-rooting the comment tree from a lower depth. Tesseract is susceptible to this on mobile as well, and I've decreased the left padding as far as it'll go as a partial workaround.
I'm not crazy about having to re-root the comment tree like Reddit does (or at least used to do) beyond a certain depth, so hoping to hear some better suggestions I can borrow.
Not off my head, no. Which is why I was asking if there were any other alternatives. I don't particularly like that solution.
Edit: Since I know the depth on a per-comment basis, maybe I could reverse it in CSS beyond a certain point and have them start going right to left? (spitballing here)
How about this: as you scroll past an entire comment in the chain (the bottom of the comment leaves the top of the screen) the entire comment chain is shifted to the left?