We’ve been working hard on this one and finally made a tiny bit of progress.
You will find that comments are now nested. We can see there are some slight visual issues, but we’re working on it. Please be patient with us.
Another edition you will find is the “report” button. If you find comments offensive, click that button to let us know.
Again, we’re still working through this and have a decent list of quirks that need worked out but it seems to be mostly functional.
so how many comments can be nestled?
lets find out
I think I have it set to 3 levels. it gets too narrow beyond that.
Lets test that.
Just testin’
4th nest test?
And so if I wanted to reply to andrew, I’d have to reply to the one above. Eh, I can live with it.
Alright, so you CAN reply to any comment, it just doesn’t tab you in an extra step because of the (lack of) CSS.
Just testing.
@zing,
well… that’s not optimal is it. I have no idea what the perfect solution is to that though. We simply can’t nest forever.
Why not?
how do you report a nested reply
@addidis,
good question :/
email for now I guess.
Awesome system. Thanks guys :P
IMO, nested comments are a thing of good sites, sir.
It would require some coding, but maybe you could support more nesting with a panning interface. By default, you show 3 levels of dialog, if a user wants more, they must “pan” to further levels, which removes the higher levels of dialog. For inspiration, something like the column view used in the Mac OS X Finder or Thunar. That would be pretty sexy :)
@Caleb
Why not change the theme to scale in width to fill the whole width of my browser, right now it takes up the middle 1/3rd on my 1280×1024 full screen chrome.
if it the whole page were wider, the comments could nest deeper. Also less indentation per level would help too.
There you go.
How about making each successive indent half the size of the previous? That would allow for deeper nesting without resulting in super-narrow text.
TUNNEL! D:
XD win
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hello world(z)
awesome sauce nice turn around.
Really impressed guys, I didn’t actually expect to see this stuff But i’m liking it so far. It needs the tweeks and polish, but this is a big improvement.
woooowww!! really cool! I was not expecting it either! Good to see HaD is finally acking that it is one of the best hacking forums around!
Props to HaD
Hmm, is there a reason to not display the reply button on posts at the nest threshold? Even if you don’t scoot subsequent replies over you could still position them directly under the comments being responded to. As long as people quote those that they’re replying to, I wouldn’t think it would get too confusing.
It is hooked to the “reply” function for some reason. Not my design. I’m researching a fix now.
This may be a visual issue you’re aware of but the text entry box extends way past the right vertical line on Safari. Useable but a pain because you cannot see all the text at once.
oh the woes of creating content for multiple browsers. it does the same thing on firefox, might want to cut the box down 100px or so.
Not sure if it’s related, but the right-side panel is now blank when viewing the individual posts. That, and just now noticed while typing this message that the text box is rather wide and causes the left-side panel to scroll left & right, without an actual scroll bar.
Just saw the comment above re: browsers. I’m using IE8 at the moment.
Very related. I’ve just submitted a patch. hopefully that will fix it.
Still broke for me.
Major props for all this Caleb, this is looking good.
#bloginfo seems to be missing on the individual posts…
the patches take quite some time to go into effect.
@ibedazzled,
Are you referring to the right hand column? if not, what is missing?
yes the right sidebar seems to be named #bloginfo
which is still not there.
are you modifying the css directly or just messing with
a plugin? if you need some help let me know and I’ll eamil
you directly…
the sidebar is back… nice
Also, none of the new features are available on my blackberry. The nesting works fine, but the reply and report options are missing.
well now that nobody is commenting on articles any more except to say “wow this is a great new had” really is nested needed?
also the input box for txt is getting cut off in firefox so only about 1/2 the line is visible. this is on a 1920×1080 screen full screen browser so i do not think the resolution is causing this.
Widening the comment area could help out a bit with the nesting, even allow another level or 2. I’ve always thought one level was too narrow for me anyway.
But neat otherwise, helps keep track of conversations instead of digging through to find @replies.
+1 for making this column wider. 99% of displays are widescreen and only like 25% of width is used.
99%???
Wow, Can I come live in your universe?
Cool :)
Another nice addition would be if the submission of the comment was all AJAXY.
[It would be nice to be able to post a comment while a video is playing ;) Especially since most posts on HaD include a vid.
There are definitely a bunch of style issues but overall I think it’s pretty sweet. Having simple JavaScript to expand/hide replies would be fantastic. I highly recommend you do something in reddit’s comment style.
Ah one more thing, how about the headline of a comment takes 1 line and in one colour instead of 2 lines with 2 colours? Now it’s a little bit hard to see the actual comments between headers.
e.g.
July 29, 2011 at 3:30pm svofski says:
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe even right justify the date and reply/report links.
It’s already way nicer than having to search for the comment someone is replying to.
NICE, hey no worries guys, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK i have been following hackaday since the beginning and i love that the the green and black has never changed … things like reply and little html changes like this are excellent
First thoughts: nice idea.
However, style is an issue here. The horizontal line after a post can be misleading when it is followed by nested comments. Also after that nested comment, a line is missing, so it seems to be connected to the following comment.
Also, like svofski said, having the date on the same line as the name would be great. I personally find the Reply/Report comment buttons to be visually disturbing, as they first seem to be the same as names/dates by their color and width. Maybe you could put them aligned right next to the name and date, or at least align them right?
Keep up the good work.
Oh, and also, a report button is missing for level-3 comments ;-)
Tsk! It’s a backdoor for us trolls! Don’t tell anyone.
A welcome step in the right direction!
It may be easier said than done, but now would be a really good time to look into changing the “fixed width” format of the site so it instead uses the full width of the viewers’ browser window. That will fix the narrow deep replies, and probably also the text cutoff some people are experiencing. (I use Chrome and lose no text, but sometimes get only a sliver of an embedded Youtube video.)
Yea! Mobile site on android now shows more than 32 comments. Previously it hid the rest. Keep up the good work.
nice work guys , thank you for your effort.
Splendid. Thanks for the work.
Awesome! Good job!
And we can edit our comments? Test.
Nope, that screenshot must be an admin’s view :(
I guess it will preserve the continuity.
ok now you guys are just showing off , i like it
And by showing off i mean the report post button on this reply.
And with that, Hackaday jumped the shark! :D
BIG step in the awesome direction, HaD!! :)
Perhaps the site could be made a bit wider to fit the new style? Things are getting awfully squished.
..and if you change your user agent string to include “troll”, then there’s also a “sucks” button, and a “this is not a hack” as well as “where’s the arduino?”, “what? no build details?” and a handy “the write-up didn’t include any source code”.
I think they just funnel that stuff all to /dev/null anyway
I’m very excited to see the finished product after all the kinks and minor tweaks are worked out.
This is huge for having comprehensible discussions.
Way to go HaD!
TestOhh strong and strike through with notify followups!
Has the exact date/time and direct comment link always been there? That’s nice. All in all a good update!
If I click notify of follow-up comments, will it email me only if people reply to this comment, or if someone comments on the entire post? ‘Cause it would be nice to be emailed only with direct comments.
In the end most of use will get used to the new, and it’s not going to matter. Any because of the new system, we may not read anything from who cant cope, great. :) While Hackaday can address many of their concerns, unfortunately they can address any “trolling” of other web pages that may or may not occur by Hackaday readers of what news Hackaday reports. In any event thanks for the extra efforts Hackaday.
nice.
let the flame war begin! lol
I just now noticed that after the first ~58 comments, it makes another page – you have to click a small “Newer Comments” link to see the rest.
Was this intended? It seems undesirable…HaD comments used to just go on forever, IIRC.
Hey can we get a “export comment thread to forum topic” feature?
OMG I WAS FEATURED *FAINTS*
its better guys. i like it. im glad its staying tue to the roots it once was. keeping fresh, but clean.. please.. for the love of god PLEASE!! done whore yourself out to much… keep it sexy
Excellent idea! A much needed upgrade IMO. Keep up the good work HaD.
I think in the original article ‘edition’ should be ‘addition.’ Other than that, I like it.
test: hope there is an edit button on my post
strange my post isn’t in order and doesn’t show up unless newer comments is clicked
Other suggestions (’cause I don’t know where else to send them to HAD):
In the forum:
1. I swear the “view new posts” changes it’s search parameters. Sometimes it appears to look back at an entire day and sometimes you think it’s only looking back one hour.
2. Why not add a “no responses to this post yet” button in the “search” forum web page.
3. Lots of forums lack this one and I don’t know why. Add a status button only available to the O.P. to indicate a thread is “SOLVED” or “PROJECT FINISHED” or “THANKS FOR THE HELP”.
4. Finally, I don’t subscribe to postings here on the front HAD page any more ’cause the follow-ups are full of noise (like this one :)). But mostly because un-subscribing is now nearly impossible! Perhaps I lost a cookie, or login credentials or it’s just broken beyond (ordinary people’s) fixing (capabilities). What ever the reason – this is your “front room” where you make “first impressions”. Could you have a look around please and see if the doggy has been doing his business in the corner or something?
(Let’s try this reply feature out.)
I should say 1, 2 & 3 are about the forum and 4 is about subscribing to the comments about the HAD articles.
ooh, and on my browser (firefox) it might be nicer to add a little space between “Reply” and “Report comments”. Or even have them on opposite sides of the comment box.
Nice work HAD.
I for one welcome our new comentary overlords!
just realized we also need a poke button :D
W00t. I was featured :D
I was featured :D
Wait, now the comments are paginated? That sucks!
I think I actually have control over the pagination now. I should probably expand it to be a bit longer.
I see you did just that. Thank you!
Any chance for in-line reply box and a different color for third-level replies?
Suggestions:
Have replies hidden and expandable with javascript. An interesting idea would be to have the replies open in an overlay that would extend to the screen width. This would allow more nesting.
Also allow there to be a separate selection for replies and follow-up comments.
Suggestion:
How about putting some space between the two links “Reply” and “Report comment” for not accidentally hitting “Report comment” when someone wants to “Reply”?
collapse?