July 16, 2010
dear clusterflock
I am mucking around with ideas for a new site design. What do you think about threaded comments? For example:
Other suggestions for features are welcome.
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- Joel Bernstein: I know right?
- Rick Neece: Being nice is a dainty way to put it.
- Rick Neece: Hey Cristopher? Who cried “uncle” first, at the end of your ten-year stand-off? To quote my...
- Michael Smith: Ours is the kitchen.
- Amy Mabli: That’s what happens when you give the dogs the bed.
- Deron Bauman: Sweet Jesus.
- Michael Smith: Don’t we all.
- Pam: I have a story coming out soon in a ‘little mag’, Chicago Quarterly Review. An old friend recently...
- Pam: And I thought, somedays, that my work was meaningless…
- Pam: I remember Eggleston at the Art Institute in Chicago a couple years ago. He was elegantly dressed in a dark suit...
- Christopher Walken: Hey Clusterflockers, Realize y’all are hurting. I’ve been a really close friend of my...
- Marco: This works pretty well in mobile, more so in iOS
- Michael Smith: It was not the intent of management to imply all sissies are “namby pamby”. Management was...
- Rick Neece: I take umbrage with the term “namby pamby.” Some sissies are fierce.
- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
I do recall somebody suggesting a photo gallery for all photography posted, so consider that one on the list.
I think I like the comment format we have where people address a previous comment specifically. I like the linear narrative of it. my two cents.
I am actually with you on that, Deron. I just want to open it up for discussion.
I think that threading or nesting or whatever you want to call it actually works against clarity, though I know that is not the aim. I like what we got.
i’ve seen that sort of threading on other websites, and it doesn’t work very well, simply because if enough people reply, the thread gets too narrow to actually read. part of the fun of clusterflock is ambling through all of the comments.
I’m with deron and shelia.
Don’t like this too much, Andrew. It’s a little Wizzard-like in its helping hand. But I sure thank you for always looking for new ways to make things work better.
I’m really starting to wonder whether Sheila goes by another name. Oh, but the comment design? Add one more vote for the status quo.
I kinda like how this works. I know there a myriad of options out there, but, the straightforward nature of this is nice.
It would be cool if when images, videos etc are posted there was a way of looking at just them – I have on occasions been looking for something and to have them all bunched in a search would make that search easier. I know you can kinda do that if everybody tags in a consistent way. So, anything that makes looking for stuff easier would be cool, especially as the database grows and you may be looking back years!
I’m with Michael, who is in turn with Deron and Sheila.
That wasn’t hard, now, was it?
I’ll be the (lone?) dissenter and say I like them nested.