Geekshow

Post edited 11:04 am – March 1, 2009 by Palaemon

Sunshineyness said:

Ohhh… shiny.

I think I like this software better than the old forum. That way it won't seem as so far removed from the comment discussions.

Good work Randy!

I totally agree and I like the 'quote' replies too.

PS I started a new thread here

Inigo Montoya said:

Post edited 5:19 pm – February 27, 2009 by Inigo Montoya

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I have examples for sites, but they’re not in English…

Basically, the idea is to have a list of old articles on the main page, that have new comments that you haven’t seen (the site keeps track of this for each user). As soon as you enter the article, it disappears from the list, until there is another new reply.

To keep this list from being too long, in the sites I know:
a. This list only includes articles that you have entered, and that have new comments since the last time you entered. Articles that you never read don’t go into the list.
b. The list shows you no more than 10 articles, but remembers more than that. so when you click on one of them, it disappears and article number 11 with new comments comes in as number 10.
c. Only put older articles (which have been pushed out of the main page) into the list. Articles that are still on the main page have a number at their top – just like this site writes that a certain article has 83 comments, these sites write that there are 83 comments, of which 45 are new for this user.

I don’t know how hard this is to do, but I know several sites that do it.

Alright, so I have a new solution up on the main page. It's a list of the 10 most recently commented on articles that you have not read. A couple points here. First, this is cookie based. So if you are viewing the site from two computers, this may not be an optimal solution. Secondly, this doesn't only list articles you have read before. It lists all of them.

But, something is better than nothing, right? Let me know what you think.