Is there a way to systematically notice new comments as they appear? Ideally I’d like to receive them as individual e-mails with subject being equal to post title, for gmail threading magic to facilitate efficient skimming.
As it is, tree view makes it difficult to keep track of the conversation as it unfolds, it’s even worse than on OB where there was no native way to subscribe (I use backtype for that purpose, a still buggy comment scanner). Maybe the simplest step for now is to allow flat view for discussion.
Thanks!
Could you add anchors to the links from there? The “Parent” link on the comments in the Comments tab seems to be the most useful one.
Also, an additional pair of “Prev | Next” links at the top of the Comments pages would be convenient. It should be “In response to a (the?) comment”. The Edit and Reply actions don’t work.
Agreed—I didn’t see what you were talking about at first, but now I’ve noticed that once I’ve already read several posts, it’s hard to find new comments on threads I’ve already read. Since some situations call for following comments in real-time (when possible), a flat view, or some other solution, would be awesome.
There’s got to be an open-source feed-reader gidget out there somewhere. So just develop the feed as pure RSS, and then link to a page that reads the feed and shows the standard gidget’s view of the feed?
Is there a way to systematically notice new comments as they appear? Ideally I’d like to receive them as individual e-mails with subject being equal to post title, for gmail threading magic to facilitate efficient skimming.
As it is, tree view makes it difficult to keep track of the conversation as it unfolds, it’s even worse than on OB where there was no native way to subscribe (I use backtype for that purpose, a still buggy comment scanner). Maybe the simplest step for now is to allow flat view for discussion.
A full comment page (with feed) is now available via the Comments tab.
Thanks! Could you add anchors to the links from there? The “Parent” link on the comments in the Comments tab seems to be the most useful one. Also, an additional pair of “Prev | Next” links at the top of the Comments pages would be convenient. It should be “In response to a (the?) comment”. The Edit and Reply actions don’t work.
You just linked to moreor. It appears at the main site here, but there’s no “Comments” tab visible as yet.
Oops jumped the gun on my announcements, they should all be live now. Fixed the link too.
Agreed—I didn’t see what you were talking about at first, but now I’ve noticed that once I’ve already read several posts, it’s hard to find new comments on threads I’ve already read. Since some situations call for following comments in real-time (when possible), a flat view, or some other solution, would be awesome.
We’ll add individual post feeds including all comments very soon, but it sounds like many of you don’t use feed readers, so need something on-site.
If you use do use a feed reader the following seems like a good model:
find a post you want to follow
click the feed icon, and add it to your reader
follow it in your reader (which is sensible enough to only show you the new stuff)
If you don’t use a feed reader, a flattened reverse chronological comment view is the best idea I have.
There’s got to be an open-source feed-reader gidget out there somewhere. So just develop the feed as pure RSS, and then link to a page that reads the feed and shows the standard gidget’s view of the feed?