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We've been working very hard to make the site as user friendly as possible, and for us a large part of this is the comments. Here are some new features recently implemented that might make using the site a little better.
-Subscriptions! You may have noticed a small link near the comments which reads "Subscribe to comments". If enabled, when a user posts a new comment to an article you are subscribed to, an email is shot out to you telling you about it. This email is sent only once until the article is checked, so you don't have to worry about getting a lot of emails if there is heavy commenting on a particular article.
By default you are auto-subscribed to an articles comments when you post to that article. This feature can be changed by going to control panel>article subscriptions.
In article subscriptions you can also view your subscriptions, with the option to remove individual ones or all.
One more new feature is a pretty experimental one, and might change a lot over the next few days. When a comment is posted that is over 750 words in length, it is cropped when displayed, showing only the beginning of the comment. The rest of the comment can be viewed by clicking 'expand comment', and can be collapsed again. It seemed that large comments made it difficult to navigate through the article. Another idea was to make the comments have their own little scrollbars.
Comments on these new features are greatly appreciated; tell us what we can do better, what doesn't work well, and what doesn't work at all. If there is an error, please comment on what browser+version you are using and any text the error might say. We have debugged in FX 2.0 and IE 7 so far.
There are some test comments at the end of this article to demonstrate how the new cropping of comments works.
-Subscriptions! You may have noticed a small link near the comments which reads "Subscribe to comments". If enabled, when a user posts a new comment to an article you are subscribed to, an email is shot out to you telling you about it. This email is sent only once until the article is checked, so you don't have to worry about getting a lot of emails if there is heavy commenting on a particular article.
By default you are auto-subscribed to an articles comments when you post to that article. This feature can be changed by going to control panel>article subscriptions.
In article subscriptions you can also view your subscriptions, with the option to remove individual ones or all.
One more new feature is a pretty experimental one, and might change a lot over the next few days. When a comment is posted that is over 750 words in length, it is cropped when displayed, showing only the beginning of the comment. The rest of the comment can be viewed by clicking 'expand comment', and can be collapsed again. It seemed that large comments made it difficult to navigate through the article. Another idea was to make the comments have their own little scrollbars.
Comments on these new features are greatly appreciated; tell us what we can do better, what doesn't work well, and what doesn't work at all. If there is an error, please comment on what browser+version you are using and any text the error might say. We have debugged in FX 2.0 and IE 7 so far.
There are some test comments at the end of this article to demonstrate how the new cropping of comments works.