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I liked the "recent comments" when it included who wrote the comment. I click on them often to read your comments for example. Now I have to look longer or not look at all.
Dave, that's one of the bugs we're rooting out of the system. That said, with a redesign in the works, we're thinking of doing away with the comment sidebar, as it takes up space that could be put to better use. Any thoughts out there? Folks would still see the number of comments attached to an article, they'd just have to read the article to read the comments and see who posted them....
Kurt - one of the problems with that approach is that when someone comments on an article that is several days or even weeks old I'll likely never see it. As much as I like the Traveler I'm not going to scroll through several pages of old articles just to see if there are any new comments.
Whoa now, I use the comment sidebar a lot!
Maybe get rid of that pesky "Friends of the Traveler" sidebar, stick it at the bottom of the page out of the way, and the annoying "Sponsors" sidebar could also join it at the bottom of the page also unless..
Just a word link ("Our Friends & Sponsors") to a page listing all your "friends" and "Sponsors" in that way giving a larger footprint to what is really important ;-]
The format of the recent comment bar has been useful and helpful. Would like to see it continue the way it was.
Please keep the recent comments sidebar. It's one of the most useful tools for following what's being actively "discussed".
I read almost all your postings and use the comment sidebar a lot. It would be a pity to lose it. And I preferred the former format, where you could see the article a comment belong to as well as the author of that comment. How else can you see if there are comments to older postings?
Oups - no captchas anymore? This will cost you lots of time to weed through the inevitable spammers comments.
If somebody comments on an older story, I would probably never go back to read newly added comments if it were not for the side bar. I think it is an important feature that I hope you keep. It should include the story it goes with as well.
The original features of the recent comments box are being restored. There is some custom code that needs to be updated before it will work with the newer website software. Please bear with us :)
Please keep the "recent comments" bar as it was. That's one of the first places I look.
Thanks,
Jane
Gotta agree with everyone else - I use the recent comments bar religiously - please keep it.
I agree with the rest. Sometimes a new comment on an old article is the only way I see something I may have missed before.
I'm with the crowd; the recent comments sidebar is a must! I'd love to even see it expanded...going back farther, perhaps!
I'll pile on...
The recent comments sidebar is my most used feature of NPT. I have the blog feed on my Yahoo portal and usually enter NPT via an article rather than the front page. Then I check the sidebar to see if there have been any comments on topics I'm following. I also like seeing who posted, because there are a few posters whose opinions I'll check out regardless of the topic.
And no, Kurt, I'm not missing the Photo of the Week by skipping the front page. I have the PotW feed on my Yahoo too!
Boy, if I knew this was the way to get folks commenting I would have threatened to remove the comment bar long ago! Any other key features you can't do without?
Since there is no dedicated forum on NPT, the comments sections are the de facto message board here. I'd think the comments sidebar attracts a lot of people to the discussion.
I would suggest that it doesn't necessarily need to be expanded much more than it is on the front page. However - a link could be provided that might show something like the last 3 dozen (or perhaps a selected number) of the latest comments.
Kurt...
Hadn't realized how much it meant to me until we lost the topic of the comment. I'll be glad to chime in on other topics once we get this fixed, but the reformatting makes me not a happy camper right now.
Haven't lost it, Rick, it's just that upgrades don't always go smoothly. Can't just push a button and have it all fall into place. Topics and names will be back....
I am with everyone else on here about keeping the comments sidebar the way it was.
Yes indeed Kurt - upgrades NEVER go smoothly! I cringe every time we are informed of upgrades to computer systems at work - seems that for every one thing an upgrade "fixes" it breaks about three other things. Slowly the bugs get worked out - things get back to normal - and guess what time that makes it? Time for the next upgrade!
Some comments don't seem to be showing up with articles even though the table of contents on the home page indicates there are comments.
I have you on my Yahoo home page - however, since the update Yahoo does not apparently update the stories - I've tried removing & reinstalling the module, deleted the cookies (solved the Login issue, thanks!!!) but I cannot seem to get an update. MSN does not seem to find you as an add-on & I miss the daily stories waiting for me!!!
William, we've noticed the same thing and are trying to track down the glitch. Thanks for hanging in there with us while we do!