Comments on: Rolling redesign, cont’d

By: MF

MF — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:23:15 +0000

In general, the site redesign is very nice. One improvement that would be really great is if it worked similarly to how http://www.confirmthem.com/ works. There, if you've signed in, when you click on the comments section of a particular entry, it indicates which comments you've already seen (or more accurately, which ones you haven't seen). It makes it easier to scan. Along those same lines, it could also be enhanced such that when you are looking at the main page, it could present the header as something like "Comments (15 - 5 new)". Obviously one would again have to be signed in / identified.

By: favicon.ico

favicon.ico — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:37:26 +0000

don’t forget to copy over the old favicon.ico file

By: duaneage

duaneage — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:44 +0000

Links should open in a new window, keeps people on the site while visiting some hilarious link. Also if the link you send them to has trouble, it does not break the browser session,

By: Jason Barney

Jason Barney — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:56:20 +0000

This is surely an improvement over the earlier site. The “Recent Comments” feature gives readers a greater sense of interactivity when they comment. I don’t know about the red color, but it’s better than the pink. The site looks–shall we say–more contemporary?

On minor formatting error: immediately under the title for a new post where it says, “By [author] on March 24, 2008 …” there is a space missing from the end of the author’s hyperlink and the “on March 24…” Nitpicky perhaps, but better fixed sooner than later.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:39:00 +0000

Please ignore the language about TypeKey authentication, which is not presently part of the comments process. At some point I’ll delete it from the comments form.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:39:12 +0000

I like the new look much better. The old one looked rather dated. BTW, when I try to sign in to comment via Typekey, I get a message that the "site owner does not have this feature installed." This has also been the case on prior occasions I've tried to use it. (and HTML tags don't seem to work either, at least in preview)

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:45:27 +0000

When I try to sign in using TypeKey I get the following error message:

The site you’re trying to comment on has not signed up for this feature. Please inform the site owner.

Is this a feature or a bug? 🙂

By: JB

JB — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:35:05 +0000

I disagree with the comments requesting that the center column should stretch to fit the browser window. It is very difficult to read lines that are very wide. Particularly with a wide-screen monitor a reader would end up with a center column that is too wide to read comfortably.

As for the colors, with the old colors I definitely knew which site I was looking at with a quick glance at the page.

By: billb

billb — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:43:18 +0000

I like the new colors and 3-column format, but, to echo a few others, I I’d like to see the center column’s width stretch to fill my browser window. Right now there’s 3-4 inches of blank page (half on either end) surrounding the text.

By: Stephen Macklin

Stephen Macklin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:44:26 +0000

I usually just read the RSS feed so I rarely see the page. But I do like the new look.