We’ve made a small adjustment to the commenting area for all the blogs in our network: Live Previews are gone.
Apparently a number of people were experiencing some slow-down with the feature and although I personally thought it was freaking neato I’d rather have people have a better experience than a little bit of eye-candy.
So, we’ve gone back to the basic vanilla commenting system. We’ve also increased the number of replies from 5 to the full 10.
More conversation threading FTW! Take a look at what a full thread might look like:
Thanks for everyone who reported this issue and keep ‘em coming! We’re listening to what you have to say.
Finally, if you were interested in knowing what WordPress Plugin we we’re using to achieve that nifty look, it was this one here: Live Comment Preview.
Is live previews what was causing the overlap problem that I mentioned earlier?
kinda but not really. it was a smaller area of typing.
Gotcha, I wonder if there is a comment collapse plugin because it just seems like on some of the posts you scroll forever.
well, currently the # of comments is 50. so then it provides pagination after that. what do you think?
That’s a good idea, but I think that number is too high. Can you cut it in half to like 25?
really? you want to keep clicking through pagination to get to more comments? i’d rather scroll…
I’m not a fan of comment pagination. Scrolling FTW!!
so it’s at 50… should we up it?
50 seems legit. more than that and people may become disinterested before they get to the bottom.
True. 50 is legit. Leave it alone. I’d rather scroll.
cool.
building for yourself pyramids, eh?
getting to the 10th level for a threat sounds like a capstone indeed
hehe.
Thanks for adding the comment login. Helps not having to enter the info each time I comment.
sure thing.
i’m assuming the threading feature is custom. any way to do this easily? i’m working on a blog conference and this is the most common user feedback.
threading is built right into wordpress now… just click the button on “discussions” in your wordpress admin.
styling it is a different thing though.
yeah that’s what i figured
bummer…i was just getting used to the other one…
Very cool! I love comment threading!
yes. so do i.
So, are you using a certain plug-in to do your normal comments, or are you just using the basic WordPress comment engine? I’m trying to figure out how to get the reply to a comment going on my blog. Thanks!
Just saw the comments above… never mind!
food for thought
I enjoy your site content but wonder if you think this comments theme and lack of contrast in colours / backgrounds is appropriate for readers with a visual impairment. Just quickly scrolling down a page with lots of threaded comment levels as in the image above creates an effect similar to an optical illusion.
wow. that is some food for thought…
Comment preview was neat, but definitely a give-or-take feature. Glad you prefer UX over bells and whistles, but I didn’t expect anything less from the pros at 8BIT.
(BTW, the threading is totally psychedelic.)