I whipped up an improvement to the comments today. Now they are more compact and easier to follow the threading, so more fit on your screen yet are easier to read.
It fits almost double the comments in the same amount of space. Here is an example showing the general difference.
New (left) vs old (right):
Hope you like it — enjoy!
The comments dont seem to be working Daniel =(
The previous entries only show the first comment
Looks like there’s an IE bug (as always). I’m looking into it.
It’s IE. What do you expect?
Should be fixed in IE6/7. But for the love of everything blasphemous, please consider using Firefox or Safari instead!
Hopefully it was a false alarm, I was on IE at work when it happened.
I use Opera at home ans its working peachy.
Im back at work now and everything is working fine, sorry for the alarm guys and gals!
Have you tried Chrome? I’ve been pretty impressed. Not many customization settings, but it’s slick.
I use a Mac, and Chrome isn’t available for it. But it does look interesting. Personally I prefer something with plugins and developer tools.
I never touched Chrome because when it was still in Beta, the EULA had some naaaasty stuff in it.
Google is evil. Use only Ixquick for your search engine. They don’t record IP’s.
http://www.ixquick.com/eng/
I saw in a documewntary that google saves all data they aquire PERMANATLY.
Looks very good =)
Of course it doesn’t mean that the comments themselves actually improved ;-)
Yes, it is harder to improve the comments themselves…
Testing!
Much better!
All ok here with FF, IE and Chrome.
Ahhhh…. 5×5, Flea.
UF, CM, radio check.
Ah! Yes, dr. R, I’ve long noticed the difference between content and structure! (e.g.: beliefs of xians, cults and airy-fairies have different content, similar structure.)
Praise Jebus!
Perhaps the comments not working properly is a display of the asweome power of Yaweh.
If so, it seems I thwarted him… again.
It doesn’t count! Because… Ehm… God actually wanted you to have better comments! He was just testing your faith, it’s all.
Nice work, btw. This is how threaded comments should look. Clean and simple :)
Daniel thanks for the all of your hard work, in dealing with the switch and the headaches that came with it. If your not careful you are going to have the # 1 Atheist blog of all time. Isn’t it funny how god would even allow a blog to continue to exist, especially a blog where Yahweh’s Soldiers (Christians) are routinely getting fannies rocked.
Aww, now Daniel doesn’t have his own unique border so I know exactly when it’s him!
Also, the avatars are tiny now!
My highlight will be back when I have time to implement it.
The avatars are tiny now, but they were taking up too much space for the # of comments we get. Maybe I’ll have a rollover that shows a larger avatar or something in the future.
Don’t bother. Avatars are great the way they are know. This new look is clean and simple; rollovers and other fancy stuff will be just that… fancy…
Comments look terrific Daniel! I was worried they were going to stay the way they were.
I believe in progress and evolution! :)
It’s what us immoral heathens do!
Thumbs up!
Daniel, while the forum has improved, it seems that the loading time of pages is lacking. It feels like I’m on a 56k. Is it just me?
It should be snappy most of the time, but I’ve noticed a delay at times too. I’ll be doing some things to (hopefully) speed it up as I have time.
The world is better in every way.
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One thing about the new site . There’s no point in getting a cool avatar ’cause it can’t be seen.
You can’t see them? I see yours.
I actually rather like the size
The avatar pictures are all blurry. They’re so small that they seem incredibily distorted. I guess I am non-plussed about that aspect, though I do like the look.
Yeah they are a little distorted, but they’re good enough to tell everybody apart at a glance, and I think that de-emphasizing the pics brings more focus on the text. I dunno about you guys but I really hate visiting those forums where everybody has a picture signature that takes up half the damned screen.
They look okay for me on Mac. But Macs always look better with images and text. :)
Daniel, I notice that the preview feature, while practical, behaves pretty stupidly. Every keyup event, even from a simple shift or arrow key, rebuilds the preview and even reloads the avatar. I expect the various browsers are intelligent enough to cache the image rather than retrieve it at the server every time, but maybe you should verify this.
Also, undo (Ctrl+Z) is no longer available.
I don’t think it’s actually pulling it from the server each time — I think it’s just updating the box so there is a flicker. But it isn’t the best plugin in the world, for sure. Seems better than nothing though until I can improve it or build my own.
I tried pulling the network cable while editing, and in IE7 this breaks the image. So it seems the image actually is retrieved from the server. That must produce quite a number of requests each day.
No preview feature in FF3. I assume this is by design.
Not by design. Looks like this plugin has quite a few disadvantages — thanks for lettting me know. But it’ll have to do for now.
works fine in IE7 Daniel. Nice work, easy to follow.