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New Comment System, Everybody Panic
As the title noted, I’m trying out a new embedded comment system. Your feedback IS important to us, and will be answered in the order received! *beep*
As part of this, it has to import all the comments you people have left since the beginning of time. It will take a while so if your comments are missing, be sure and proclaim it’s because I hate you.
Edit: …..aaaaand it’s gone. Too many issues. We fear change.
Edit2: Since I switched comment engines in mid post, comments using the old and now current system appear before the aborted new and now deprecated system. LOOK JUST ACCEPT IT jesus I dread making a game that I have to ask for money from you people for.
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about 1 year ago
And here, we have a comment. Isn't this EXCITING? (Not really.)
about 1 year ago
Well I'd say first except I think that's juvenile. So instead I'd like to sing a song ….
about 1 year ago
And look, it's THREADED! The thrills and the chills, it's nonstop, really.
about 1 year ago
Lets see how many times you can reply to a thread. WordPress cuts off after 4 I believe.
about 1 year ago
I believe we can break that!
about 1 year ago
My deluge of [automoderated] entries as the previous comment system killed perfectly good entries for the audacity of being edited while they had a link or three in them may or may not have been a factor.
about 1 year ago
Indeed. Your comment thread is way more hardcore than WordPress (correctly so, since this is niche compared to the mass market of WordPress)
about 1 year ago
Bring back Precasting!
about 1 year ago
I have grokked the mighty power of OpenID. Does this mean my oh-so-important wishes for the ability to edit my messages will be granted?
about 1 year ago
Yes, but the GM scandals will be AWESOME.
about 1 year ago
When you say "important to Us" is that a "royal we" sort of thing? is there more than one of you?
about 1 year ago
But what does this have to do with Sims3?
about 1 year ago
Виагра
about 1 year ago
Seems to work fine, even for potential spammers.
What bothers me though is that it makes the archives a complete mess. Blockquote cite doesn't seem to work here, so it's difficult to keep track of what was cited and what was the response.
about 1 year ago
So long as you keep your invuln shield on, everything should be fine.
about 1 year ago
Y'know, SOME blog software has nicely threaded comments with subscription options by default…
about 1 year ago
Sweet! I can give thumbs up & down. Sorry about that Vetarnias you were convenient
I'll give you an equally unjustified thumbs up sometime to maintain your good name…
about 1 year ago
And look, it will be IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW when it gets overly complicated.
I just see it as a further ploy on your part to avoid talking about Darkfall. "Oh, but the comments will be impossible to organize if I do."
about 1 year ago
Don't make me snipe you.
about 1 year ago
clearly your bad-assity is not uber enough for Darkfall, otherwise you would have implemented nested comments in the mid-1980s.
about 1 year ago
Glad to be of convenience.
about 1 year ago
Here let me get that for you
about 1 year ago
I'll get this too
about 1 year ago
does it get smaller?
about 1 year ago
It's annoying.
Seriously, it's really annoying. It's like the bastard child of a blog and a forum, with none of the good points of either. In my opinion, it wasn't broken to begin with, and the "fix" may be annoying enough to make me wander off and not come back much.
about 1 year ago
Apropos
about 1 year ago
Threading is turned off. That should take care of the primary difference – it was a pretty big UI change and it, well, didn't work very well.
The main reason I set this up was for behind-the-scenes maintainability. The default WordPress commenting engine doesn't work too well with the level of comment traffic seen here.
about 1 year ago
Ah, ok, thanks a lot for this. I was just about to comment that if you ever decided to switch back to your previous system, or any other, the comments in your archives made under this system would be a gigantic mumbo-jumbo of posts thrown out of order.
And really, your archives are fun to read, too.
about 1 year ago
hmmm… it still looks like it threads when you reply from a post, even with threading not active.
about 1 year ago
Also, it doesn't like IE at ALL.
about 1 year ago
Who does?
about 1 year ago
IE should be burned. Except for a few copies. Which the creators are forced to use every day for the rest of their lives.
I wonder if the devs at Microsoft use Firefox. It must make them cry just seeing something so much better…
about 1 year ago
Hmm, IntenseDebate looks nicer than Disqus…
UPDATE: /scratch, what I get for reading via RSS and then commenting…
about 1 year ago
Nobody? Opera FTW
omg, random threading?
Also, how the hell comes mine is 3rd comment?!? Who the hell did I erase? O_O
about 1 year ago
/nvm
about 1 year ago
nvm, it just so happens I’m traveling in time. feel free to remove my comments.
… but still o_o”
about 1 year ago
Man, I missed all the fun. :/
Edit: And, apparently, I can travel through time…? The timestamp is off, and it’s before a lot of previous comments…
about 1 year ago
giggity?
about 1 year ago
dude get a forum, srsly
about 1 year ago
It turns commenting into an ADVENTURE!!!!
about 1 year ago
Hmm, and the timestamps seem screwey, as I apparently replied hours before the original post. Maybe because I’m a Brit?
about 1 year ago
Does the timestamp work right if I don’t reply? Lets find out!
about 1 year ago
No. No it does not.
about 1 year ago
Scott explains the problem in the edit to the main post.
“Edit2: Since I switched comment engines in mid post, comments using the old and now current system appear before the aborted new and now deprecated system. LOOK JUST ACCEPT IT jesus I dread making a game that I have to ask for money from you people for.”
Apparently the time stamps were corrupted when he put in the new system, so posts made with it are screwed up. Posts made now have the correct time stamp, and appear before the posts with the corrupted time stamps.
about 1 year ago
I like how there’s a space missing between the date and the number of comments so just now when I looked at the main page this thread seemed to have “200945 comments”. On Firefox, if that matters. =)
about 1 year ago
I have grokked the mighty power of OpenID. Does this mean my oh-so-important wishes for the ability to edit my comments will be granted?
[edit:] Yea, it is so.
about 1 year ago
I missed something.
about 1 year ago
I still use IE. Haven’t felt the need to change as I’ve been malware free for years.
about 1 year ago
I just wanted to leave my mark of disapproval in this thread.
about 1 year ago
I liked being able to freely edit my comments while it lasted.
Being unable to make comments for 6-8 hours following the reverting because my last post was registered as that many hours in the future (thereby triggering flood prevention) I could do without.
about 1 year ago
“jesus I dread making a game that I have to ask for money from you people for.”
Can’t wait! No worries, even if it turns out to be the BEST GAME EVER that makes Blizzard products look amateurish, we’ll pick it apart in short order.
about 1 year ago
But… what if he works for blizzard?
about 1 year ago
what do you mean, “you people”
about 1 year ago
Dude, just set up a forum.
And while you’re at it, hire a team of admins to police and moderate said forum.
You could start selling WoW gold advertising to pay for it all!
about 1 year ago
Darkfall gold advertising would be better lulz.
about 1 year ago
“jesus I dread making a game that I have to ask for money from you people for.”
The inability of the devs to even implement a comment system that doesn’t require us to grind out letters in order to form sentences (the only gameplay mechanic as far as I can see) makes me question what they were thinking. And why they hate fun.
I’m going back to WoW. Where the devs also hate fun, but it is a familiar form of hate.
about 1 year ago
I am not afraid.
about 1 year ago
Only part of that movie that was worth watching.
about 1 year ago
Hey my comments arent showing!!!
about 1 year ago
The EVE Fan quotient was too high. It overloaded the system.
LOOK, JUST ACCEPT IT.
about 1 year ago
oh yah that worked out so well the last time he did that
about 1 year ago
This is the most fun I’ve had in ages. Jebus Kristy, that’s a sad, sad little statement. Comments 4 teh win.