I’ve gotten a couple of requests recently for a return to my old “recent comment” style on the sidebar.
Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen for the time being.
The plugin that performed that rather nifty design, Brian’s Latest Comments, eats up a ton of resources for some reason and crashes my blog.
I’m currently using this plugin, which does something similar, but is, IMHO, quite ugly. I’d like to know which the readers prefer — this “Recent Comment” format or the previous, simple one I’d been using until today.
Oh, and I’ve activated a live preview for comments.
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The live preview for comments ROCKS!
The “Recent Comment” formats — i really don’t care, both are fine.
This version is much better.
DISCLAIMER: The following is intended only as a stylistic quibble, not as an attack on the person in question or his views.
While you’re tweaking the blog, Robert, is there any way you can implement a feature wherein CR/LFs and clicking Post Comment will only work 25% of the time for users logged in as wjk?
I like the new version better.
I like the recent comments also because it shows the hot issues that are being discussed.
This is crazy, but how about a system in which we can rate the quality of a comment? Naver, I believe, has something like this… What would be really cool is a feedback rating that sticks with the commenter like on ebay. Oh, nevermind…
I agree with this: “The live preview for comments ROCKS!” But it is a little confusing over there.
Awesome. We can turn Marmot’s Hole into a popularity contest.
Actually, we’d just pin numbers on what basically already happens.
love the live preview. maybe I should learn basic html now.
Robert,
Doesn’t your theme support widgets? If so, there’s a widget for recent comments which I use.
Actually, Nomad, what I’m using now IS a widget. I was using before this the widget you’re currently using, but it didn’t group comments by post, and unlike Brian’s Latest Comments, it didn’t really give an accurate picture of the activity on the blog
http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/12/brians-latest-comments/
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