Comments on: Comment Notification

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:12:12 +0000

Roy:

Actually posting things is completely overrated. There is no need for that kind of effort! Just look at me, do I ever post?

More seriously, I’ve found that setting this thing up has given me a place to type a lot of things up that I wouldn’t have otherwise, but I’m still finding myself limited by expectations of people. For example, are people reading this (many of whom are semantic-web people, or similarly non-political) going to be boethered if I post my response to something I heard on the radio about US or World politics? I don’t know, the whole thing is kinda hard to work around, especially sincec I have a large captive audience with readers from http://planetrdf.com/ .

I wasn’t actually sure what would happen with regard to comments: I just installed the thing, I didn’t write it

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:47:09 +0000

Chris:

I didn’t get a copy of my own comment, and understood that I wouldn’t from your post. Just letting my opinion on the matter be known. :p

Tab issue is fixed.

I need to get unlazy and start a blog for technical stuff. Of course, that requires actually posting…

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:07:06 +0000

George: Of course, like so many commenting tools, LiveJournal had this kind of functionality years ago. For a long time it was not implemented anymore, but it was recently brought back after some DB changes to make it less intensive. You get two things: A list of the last comments posted to your own journal (typical of many weblog packages), but also the “Recent comments you’ve posted” view, with a list of comments you’ve posted, where you posted them, and when.

Maybe with the 6A/LJ thing we’ll see some interesting TypeKey merging of features, although I wouldn’t really plan on it: the two services work in entirely different ways. (LiveJournal is way more centralized than just about anything else out there.)

I’m still amazed by how many things LiveJournal has had forever that others have never thought of…

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:58:22 +0000

http://commentstrack.net/ for a first attempt at implementation of what Haughey suggests

By: George Hotelling

George Hotelling — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:45:07 +0000

It looks like you found something for WordPress, there’s a Movable Type plugin for this too. rdfs:seeAlso Posted Elsewhere needs to go internet-wide - Matt Haughey wants an version of Flickr’s “Comments from photos you’ve posted on” that works for all sites.

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:29:23 +0000

Roy:

I don’t think you get a copy of your own comment with this system: let me know if you do. I’ll keep that in mind.

I’ll also fix the tabbing issue in a little bit: I forgot to add a tabindex on the field, which Wordpress uses everywhere.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:18:27 +0000

Email notification: a good thing.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:08:34 +0000

I like being able to get email notification of replies. That’s one of the largest things that makes LiveJournal what it is. Threading adds a lot to that, too.

I don’t want a copy of my comment, personally. I know I left it, even if it’s a “I left it around here somewhere” sort of know.

Also, I can’t tab to the checkbox from the URI field in Firefox 1.0 on XP.