Comments on: New look to Locally Grown, now in process

By: Jerry Friedman

Jerry Friedman — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:13 +0000

I think the nested replies are easy for a thread's new readers, but for its active participants, it does get confusing.

When I want to reply to a recent post, sometimes I have to search quite a bit to find it, if it was nested.

I can cope either way, but I think not nesting is easier. However, if you use a split screen and have the nested subjects on the left, and the selected subject's body on the right, the nesting works much better. Nesting the whole message is the difficult part.

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:45:34 +0000

Or, click on the one:

Jerry Friedman: David: There is no universal atheist creed, except that atheists do not believe in a god....

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:26 +0000

Griff, On the confusing nature of nested posts: just try to follow the last few comments on the 'atheism' thread.

In particular, try clicking on the comment on the sidebar that reads:

David Ludescher: Jerry: My purpose in bringing the issue of same-sex marriage into this post was to lend some...

I think that the feature should just be disabled.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:51:25 +0000

I’m hosting a live chat tonight at 8pm, to include feedback on the new look of Locally Grown:
http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/9472/

Chime in, puhlease!

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:25:20 +0000

I've added a "search everything" plugin to the WordPress search feature in an attempt to improve it. The WP search box is still in the far upper right corner above the photo banner.

I've also added a Custom Google Search widget to the right sidebar, just above the Comments. The main drawback is that it generates typical Google ads on the results page.

Hopefully between the two of these, it'll be easier to find what you're looking for here. Let me know how it goes.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:19:26 +0000

Yeah, I noticed that truncation too, Susan. Doesn’t happen with Firefox or Google Chrome… just Internet Explorer. I’ll put it on my to-do list!

By: Susan Hvistendahl

Susan Hvistendahl — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:11:55 +0000

Tops of numbers are truncated, but we can pretty much guess them!

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:44:54 +0000

Okay, I’ve turned off threaded comments. It’s renumbered the comments above. Let me know if you notice any weirdness.

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:46:04 +0000

Off.

By: Tracy Davis

Tracy Davis — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:16:10 +0000

I prefer them off, too.

By: Susan Hvistendahl

Susan Hvistendahl — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:16:09 +0000

Turn ‘em off.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:21:30 +0000

If no one really wants to have nested/threaded/decimal-pointed comments, I'm happy to turn them off.

Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

By: Paul Zorn

Paul Zorn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:54:15 +0000

Much, much better. No decimal points, please.

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:18:11 +0000

My general impression is that it looks pretty confusing when these things get nested.

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:15:16 +0000

Aahh. Something like this, I guess.

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:14:31 +0000

And what, exactly, will this page look like if the comments go three layers deep?

By: Patrick Enders

Patrick Enders — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:13:30 +0000

It’s also very confusing trying to follow the thread of comments with these nested responses. The order of comments in the body of the page is now different than that in the preview pane in the right column.

By: Randy Jennings

Randy Jennings — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:32:09 +0000

Thanks for restoring the numbers and the time stamp. Point B seems especially likely. On a topic that draws a flurry of responses, the additions linked to the earlier posts will disappear.

By: Tracy Davis

Tracy Davis — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:54:30 +0000

This is how the threaded comment works. I posted this on Wednesday 2/18 at just before 11a, but it doesn’t display chronologically in the entire list of comments -- it displays under the specific comment I replied to. The comment numbering shows the difference also.

By: david beimers

david beimers — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:05:08 +0000

This is much easier to read. I have to say I’ve been staying away over the past month because I didn’t like the layout. Thanks for the improvements.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:56:55 +0000

Thanks, Norman. Be thankful Tracy takes the lead on design.

By: norman butler

norman butler — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:39:47 +0000

Much, much better, Griff. More readable by far.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Okay, numbered comments are working.

And I've turned on threaded comments, but just three levels deep for now. I've never been a big fan of threaded comments as it's so easy A) to get confused (it's not like F2F conversation); and B) to miss comments.

But I'm willing to experiment. Feel free to attach comment to this one and then one to that one and... well, you get the idea.

By: Griff Wigley

Griff Wigley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:11:43 +0000

And I’m still messing with comments, specifically threaded comments. And this comment is an example, as I’ve attached it to Tracy’s comment above.

By: Tracy Davis

Tracy Davis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:51:35 +0000

And look, everyone, the sidebar isn't dark anymore!

As Griff mentioned, I'll be tweaking fonts and link colors just slightly, so please hold off for a few hours before commenting on specifics.