More updates this morning. You can now select from several new comment styles in [editpage]. If you want your page to continue the same just do nothing. The 2 new options are 'threaded w/posting box' and 'straight comments'. Both of these options add a posting box to the bottom of the /comment page. This box acts like the posting box you would get before by clicking the 'add a comment' link at the top of the page. This idea here is that having the posting box right on the page saves one click, and might mean that more people will add their comments to the bottom of the page rather than having threaded replies to a specific previous comment. With 'threaded w/ posting box' each comment retains its own [add a comment] link, and threading is still allowed. The second new option - 'straight comments' - only has the new posting box at the bottom of the /comment page (each individual comment does not have its own [add a comment] link.) No threading is possible. However, no matter which way you set your page (besides 'no comments') old threaded comments will still display as threaded, so any change is only effective forward into the future.

The idea, as I discussed once before, is that threaded comments really eat up system resources. This is definitely not a problem at this point, so use whatever style you want. But if this system ever needed to scale up (in a different incarnation) it might be necessary to limit comments to the straight style. Also someone might actually prefer the straight style, so for them it is now an option.
- jim 12-07-2001 4:29 pm

I wish the add a comment boxes as well as those which now appear at the bottom of the comment pages offered the test posting options. Can they?
- steve 1-10-2002 5:21 am [add a comment]





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