Yeah that would be really great. Medium does this kind of well. Chris Olah’s blog also has this feature (example post), but it’s implemented in a pretty hacky way using Disqus.
It would be cool if you could highlight some text in a post, and there was an easy way to create a comment that quoted that part of the text. Maybe you could even show some sort of visual highlight on that text in the post if the dicussion is high quality (measure by come combination of Karma and lenght?).
One UI for this I could imagine (for non-mobile wide-screen use) is to have the post and the comments appear in two columns with the post on the left and the comments on the right (Similar to the Mac OS X Finder’s column view.) Then when the user clicks on a comment the appropriate bit of the post would get highlighted.
In fact, I could see doing a similar thing for the individual comments themselves to create a view that would show the *ancestry* of a single comment, stretching left back to the post the conversation was originally about. This could save a fair amount of scrolling.
Yes. Google docs does contain a lame version of the thing I’m pointing at. The right version is that the screen is split into N columns. Each column displays the children of the selection from the previous column (the selection could either be an entire post/comment or a span within the post/comment that the children are replies to.)
This is both a solution to inline comments and a tree-browser that lets you see just the ancestry of a comment at a glance with out having to manually collapse everything else.
Also: you replied to my comment and I didn’t see any notifications. I found your reply by scrolling around. That’s probably a bug.
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I’ve been thinking about adding a content block in posts that allows for comments starting at that specific point. That is a bit easier than general inline commenting.
Not sure how to do the formatting though. We might make it collapsible, or give it an internal scroll-bar where you can scroll through the comments, similar to what Google plus does with their comments:
Hm. That seems really clunky to me, because the author has to decide where comments belong; but it does seem likely to result in more organized discussion.
Would be great to have entire discussions starting from a point in the document. (Also a pony.)
Harvard Law Review also has a pretty classy way of doing footnotes (example post).
Yeah that would be really great. Medium does this kind of well. Chris Olah’s blog also has this feature (example post), but it’s implemented in a pretty hacky way using Disqus.
It would be cool if you could highlight some text in a post, and there was an easy way to create a comment that quoted that part of the text. Maybe you could even show some sort of visual highlight on that text in the post if the dicussion is high quality (measure by come combination of Karma and lenght?).
One UI for this I could imagine (for non-mobile wide-screen use) is to have the post and the comments appear in two columns with the post on the left and the comments on the right (Similar to the Mac OS X Finder’s column view.) Then when the user clicks on a comment the appropriate bit of the post would get highlighted.
In fact, I could see doing a similar thing for the individual comments themselves to create a view that would show the *ancestry* of a single comment, stretching left back to the post the conversation was originally about. This could save a fair amount of scrolling.
Are you thinking of something similar to what Google docs has? That’s how I’ve been thinking about implementing the general inline-commenting thing.
Yes. Google docs does contain a lame version of the thing I’m pointing at. The right version is that the screen is split into N columns. Each column displays the children of the selection from the previous column (the selection could either be an entire post/comment or a span within the post/comment that the children are replies to.)
This is both a solution to inline comments and a tree-browser that lets you see just the ancestry of a comment at a glance with out having to manually collapse everything else.
Also: you replied to my comment and I didn’t see any notifications. I found your reply by scrolling around. That’s probably a bug.
Ah, notifications actually exist, but they are currently disabled by default. You can subscribe to any comments for which you want to get notifications for by clicking the subscribe button.
You can also activate automatically subscribing to your posts and comments on your profile.
I’ve been thinking about adding a content block in posts that allows for comments starting at that specific point. That is a bit easier than general inline commenting.
Not sure how to do the formatting though. We might make it collapsible, or give it an internal scroll-bar where you can scroll through the comments, similar to what Google plus does with their comments:
http://www.giphy.com/gifs/xUPGcBQeJW4RS9Lp04
Hm. That seems really clunky to me, because the author has to decide where comments belong; but it does seem likely to result in more organized discussion.
You mean, something similar to Medium comments?
Medium comments are great and beat GDocs comments in particular.
Medium removed commenting though, not sure why.