Comments - Time to add features?

Posted by Andrew Faulkner on October 1st, 2006.

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We’re a listening community. We’re also a talkative community. So I thought I’d ask for some feedback about the comments. I’m looking for any feedback you have (any irks or issues with current commenting system) but here’s a list of what I’m pondering:

Adding CoCommment functionality.
Adding a notification of new comments via email facility. (Catchy!)
Ability to style comments more easily.

Any thoughts are most welcome by commenting here or giving your opinion privately via our feedback page. Thank you, readers.

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Andrew, I always appreciate sites that allow me to sign up for notification of comments by email on particular threads.

I find that the options to use blockquote and a tags give me more than enough markup options. A preview button might be nice to make sure mark-up tags have been closed properly.

Also, have you considered threaded/nested replies (e.g., as used on the Agonist)? I’m seeing comments handled this way on enough of the high-traffic political blogs that I expect we’ll see it as an option offered by standard blog software soon. (Soon = 6-12 mo?) Threaded comments make it much easier for readers to follow different threads in an active discussion around a blog post, and much easier to writers to indicate they are writing a comment in reply to a specific, previous comment.

(I’m a regular reader who mostly lurks here — and I enjoy your site greatly. Thank you.)

Shaula Evans
October 2nd, 2006
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A preview feature would be nice. I had a problem with my first post here because I didn’t realize that certain characters and formatting would be stripped out. (I was putting in a bit of sample code that it didn’t like).

Megan
October 2nd, 2006
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Shaula,

A great response - this has given me a lot to think about. And a ‘lurker’ hey? Well thanks for speaking up. Any more lurkers out there?

Megan,

A preview feature would be good. I agree. Lots of work to do now!

Andrew Faulkner
October 2nd, 2006
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check spelling is always nice =)

the site seems to already be cocomments set, at least on my puter.
bigger comment box, or the ability to expand the box would be nice. I can give you some simple javascript code to do so, hit me up with an email if you want it

David B.
October 6th, 2006
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Andy, I would put the recent articles more up, For instance in the outer right hand column at the very top that is. ?? Just suggesting

Johan
October 7th, 2006
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Anderson
June 14th, 2007
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Nice

Martinos
July 10th, 2007
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