Comments on: Comments on Comments

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:14:00 +0000

Thanks, Charles. I made that discovery after leaving my first clutch of responses, and immediately re-submitted my comments using the appropriate HTML code.

But my repaired submissions haven't appeared at all. Weird!

By: Charles Chickering

Charles Chickering — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:16:00 +0000

Donald, if you enclose anything in “Greater-Than” and “Less-Than” symbols, the blog software thinks it is a HTML tag and does not print it.

By: Donald

Donald — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:53:00 +0000

I've only recently begun to leave comments in "Count Everything But..." only to find they're not displayed in full; my name links to my web site and not to a display of my full comment; the date and time stamp on my comments is a "top of comment" link; and some of my comments aren't displayed at all.

In the absence of automatic full comment display, I would have expected the link on my name to lead to my complete comment and that all my comments are published otherwise the full sense and significance of my input is lost, making my contributions pointless.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:02:00 +0000

re RSS: That's how I read everything anymore. I'll bet 95% of my web time is spent at bloglines.com.

re crowded: I agree. Suggestions? I would like to show only the first 'x' characters of the post title because I think that would clean it up. That never works as well as I think it will. Also, I didn't write the php for this, so I don't really want to modify it. Can I limit the number of characters via a style?

re time: I would like that too. It uses the default date format rather than letting me specify one, otherwise I'd shorten the date to, say, 17-Oct and add the time.

re count: Fixed.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:51:00 +0000

And just noticed an interesting item on here...

*click the post name, you go to the top of that post.
*click the name/date etc of the last commenter, you go to that comment.
*click the number of comments in brackets after the post name, you go nowhere at all, despite a hyperlink being assigned to it....

(e.g. I click the "(6)" after "Comments on Comments" when in the "22 hours" post, and I stay put in the "22 hours" post - I would expect to go to the beginning of the comments section of the "Comments on Comments" post?).

Seems the hyperlink assigned to that part matches the current URL. What's that all about?

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:37:00 +0000

Dick, like the return, but find the layout a little crowded. Like being able to click straight to the new comment or begin of post depending on when I last looked, that's cool.

Maybe last 10 posts commented rather than the current 15? Date definitely needs to stay I would say, time would be a nice to have, as long as it doesn't crowd any more.

By: Simon Herbert

Simon Herbert — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:13:00 +0000

Doug – If you click on the post title, you are taken to the top of the post. If you click o the person’s name, you are taken to their comment.
The only exception to this I have seen is when the post has images – I was taken to the comment and then the window scrolled when the images loaded…

Dick – I like the new layout, it works well for me as I don’t always have access to the feeds.

By: Doug Jenkins

Doug Jenkins — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:50:00 +0000

Dick – when we click on a comment in the recent comments list it used to take us to that comment, but now it takes us to the top of the thread. A small point, but I preferred it the old way.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:06:00 +0000

The best way to keep track of a comment thread (in my opinion) is with co.mments.com. You create an account, then subsribe to your co.mments feed in your rss reader. Any time there's a comment thread I'm interested in, I click the bookmarklet and I'm good to go. I like co.mment over cocomment because the rss feed will contain chunks of comments. ie.- if there are 20 comments since the last time it checked, one feed will have 20 comments. cocomment will send 20 individual feeds.

Anyway, I hope this helps some of you comment trackers out there.

-Jeremy

By: Ron de Bruin

Ron de Bruin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:30:00 +0000

Hi Dick

>Personally, I think it's hard to read
I agree with you