Bindle Update: Comments on Comments, File Limits
Kosh has complained that some of the comments in the comments section on the home page do not have clickable links to the articles on which the comments were posted. This must have something to do with how the user is posting the comment because it is impossible for the system to randomly fail to insert the reference link to the article the comment was posted on.
If you come across a comment in the comments section that does not have a link attached to it, and you want to backtrack to the article, simply click on the byline of the person who posted the comment. This will take you to that person’s profile page. Once you are on the profile page, click on the comments section on the black bar. The screen will repaint and you will be able to find the comment. Click on the comment and that will take you to the article the comment was posted on.
I agree that this is a very roundabout pain-in-the-ass way of tracking comments to posts but until I can reproduce the error I can’t figure out what’s causing it.
However, that raises another subject. I have been thinking of relocating the comments section on the home page to the top of the right-hand column because that seems to the section that you all are most interested in seeing. Comments on relocating comments.
12/02/2020 @ 11:55 am
I am absolutely in favor of raising the comments section to the top right. Current material of any kind is of more constant use than old material, so we’ve got new posts on the left and new comments on the right. Right now I go to the home page and scroll down like Hell to get where I”m going.
I did the comments thing through the Profile page. What’s important to know is that you’re not looking for the word Comments, you’re looking for the icon, which is a comics speech bubble.
12/02/2020 @ 2:25 pm
As you can all see, I have now moved the COMMENTS section to the top of the page. I think this makes much more sense, in this intimate environment. If we were to pick up several hundred actual users posting on a regular basis, this comments section would be moving faster than you could read them. At that point, we would have to create another page that would list ALL comments because there is not enough “real estate’ in the recent comments section to install a scroll bar, and even if I added a scroll bar, it would not be possible to read the incoming comments unless I set it up to read oldest first but then you would have to scroll to the bottom of the page….and that wouldn’t accomplish anything because the scroll would still be moving too fast to read. This would probably become a problem with more than 1,000 members…and I don’t see how we would ever reach that number unless we could entice everyone from Open Salon to come back.
By the way, as a reminder, the checklist disappears whenever I am editing the website which means that people can post items that don’t conform to the model, which is not a good thing. Please don’t do that.
12/02/2020 @ 2:27 pm
There is also a significant lag time between the posting of a comment and when that comment appears on the comment list. Have to work on that.
12/03/2020 @ 10:20 am
OK. Thanks for moving where the comments are.
As to the comments moving too fast because our membership is that big, we should only have that problem.