Comments on: Major Comments Overhaul

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:22:37 +0000

It works fine. It even updates in the preview slide for me.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:22:49 +0000

Actually, the Feedburner script at the top (with Digg, and the other stuff) is supposed to be displaying the number of comments. It usually takes a little while to update, but it should be saying something by now. I guess it’s possible that the changes I’ve made are incompatible. I’ll wait until tomorrow to see what happens there.

By: SEM Inc.

SEM Inc. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:56:22 +0000

Only suggestion is to have the amount of comments on the front page. It just says “Add comment”. Users like to see how many other people have commented. Makes them want to comment too.

By: SEM Inc.

SEM Inc. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:47:26 +0000

Checking…test…. wow…that looks cool with the preview feature.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:35:33 +0000

I’m guessing that you are referring to the ~~Strikethrough~~. Actually it does work once posted, but it doesn’t work in the preview window.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:19:19 +0000

This does~~n’t~~ work.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:11:14 +0000

Found the textbox size and doubled it. Now shows 8 rows by default.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:51:39 +0000

This is a test reply.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:48:13 +0000

Ok. I've changed a few things.

Everything is once again ordered in Ascending order.
I've increased the number of comments that appear per page to 25.
I've changed it so that the last page of comments is the default page displayed. So if there are 75 comments you automatically see the last 25, but you can scroll back through the previous pages to see older ones or you can still "view all".

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:47:14 +0000

Ok. I’m fixing the ordering. Also working on the textbox size issue, but not finding where that default is…

By: hthth

hthth — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:29:30 +0000

OK. Problem: Every time I tried to reply to the 2nd level nested reply (03:14:11), nothing happened when I pushed Add comment. I just loaded the page, my comment nowhere to be found. Here’s my 3rd try at posting this comment, this time not posting as a reply.
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Uh oh. My comment disappeared on the first try. This is the second time I’m posting this.
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Do you like it better when the latest comments show up on the top? I think it makes it a bit confusing having replies in old->new order but original comments in new->old order, kind of feels to me like Memento.

I would also recommend to initially larger textbox size!

By: hthth

hthth — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:27:13 +0000

Uh oh. My comment disappeared on the first try. This is the second time I’m posting this.
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I would also recommend to initially larger textbox size!

By: hthth

hthth — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:25:34 +0000

By: hthth

hthth — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:15:12 +0000

Looks good John. Going to post this one, and then a reply to your nested reply above to see the difference. Everything seems to work fine on Safari.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:14:11 +0000

Now I’m replying to the first post. This reply should be nested and grouped with the original comment. It should also update the Comments title to read “2 Comments in 1 Thread”.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:12:56 +0000

Here is the first reply. I'm using the bold, italics and ~~strikethrough~~ quicktags as well as making a link and a

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