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.
Brian Alexander says
Is live previews what was causing the overlap problem that I mentioned earlier?
John Saddington says
kinda but not really. it was a smaller area of typing.
Brian Alexander says
Gotcha, I wonder if there is a comment collapse plugin because it just seems like on some of the posts you scroll forever.
John Saddington says
well, currently the # of comments is 50. so then it provides pagination after that. what do you think?
Brian Alexander says
That’s a good idea, but I think that number is too high. Can you cut it in half to like 25?
John Saddington says
really? you want to keep clicking through pagination to get to more comments? i’d rather scroll…
John Dyer says
I’m not a fan of comment pagination. Scrolling FTW!!
John Saddington says
so it’s at 50… should we up it?
Nick Shoemaker says
50 seems legit. more than that and people may become disinterested before they get to the bottom.
Brian Alexander says
True. 50 is legit. Leave it alone. I’d rather scroll.
John Saddington says
cool.
PhillipGibb says
building for yourself pyramids, eh?
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getting to the 10th level for a threat sounds like a capstone indeed
John Saddington says
hehe.
Brad Davis Seal says
Thanks for adding the comment login. Helps not having to enter the info each time I comment.
John Saddington says
sure thing. π
Brian Barela says
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.
John Saddington says
threading is built right into wordpress now… just click the button on “discussions” in your wordpress admin.
styling it is a different thing though.
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Brian Barela says
yeah that’s what i figured π
Jim Gray says
bummer…i was just getting used to the other one…
Kevin M. says
Very cool! I love comment threading!
John Saddington says
yes. so do i.
Adam says
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!
Adam says
Just saw the comments above… never mind!
John says
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.
John Saddington says
wow. that is some food for thought…
Scott Magdalein says
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.)