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from the prevention-goes-a-long-way dept.
So, every once in awhile, if things have been quiet, I like to pop a post seeing what the general feelings of the community are towards the site, seeing what we could do better, etc. I think its been a few months since the last time I posted in Meta, so I think this is a good time to get a pulse on the community, and provide a venue to get any feedback (good or bad).
On the staff side, I know things have been relatively quiet over the summer due to most of us being busy with life and such, which is why we haven't made a major site upgrade since the original rehash upgrade at the end of May. For myself, I've been working at a new job, and dealing with a fair bit of non-Soylent related things to the point that I really only have the time or energy to post, and occasional check in, and I'd like to thank the rest of the staff, and mrcoolbp in particular for holding down the fort for me.
Anyway, in contrast to my usual posts, I'm going to cut this off here, and will be looking forward to your comments below.
73 from NCommander
(Score: 2) by draconx on Tuesday November 17 2015, @06:22PM
I have a feature request:
I normally only log in to post comments... so when I'm not posting I normally don't bother logging in.
One thing that annoys me is that when browsing as AC, I need to manually adjust the comment thresholds for every single article, because the settings do not seem to persist from one article to the next. I wish the settings would persist for my session (with a cookie), so I only have to change it once and it applies site-wide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @03:22AM
We kicked this one around a bit before.
In that discussion, I mentioned AutoHotkey / AutoKey (keyboard macro apps). [soylentnews.org]
If you assign your preferred parameters to a keybinding, it's easy to get what you want on the 1st pageload.
(Note what I said there about dragging and dropping stuff into a blanked Address Bar.)
N.B. If there are more than 50 comments, you will likely want to add &startat=0 to the string and bump that to 50 when you want to load the next page.
Caveat: When a thread has 1 or more really long subthreads, it can take some jiggery-pokery with the startat number to get what you want.
...and when a -subthread- has more than 50 comments, you will find that "you can't get there from here" with the nested presentation.
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Further down in that subthread, others liked the idea of nested being the default presentation (as it was on the other site).
I have mentioned previously that that has the possibility of getting this site more traffic from search engines.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:08AM
It's been discussed. The hard part is making it work with varnish caching. We'd collapse under load if all the ACs hit the backend every page load. I'd be willing to try it with the cavaet that if the site starts buckling due to load we'd have to back it out which don't make anyone happy.
It's also been the opinion that there should be some perks to registering such as keeping settings persistent, and as such no one has really put time into looking how hard this would be do in practice. If we get a patch, I'll merge it and push it out on the next rollout.
While we like ACs, I prefer that regular contributors sign up. I do realize some people don't due to philosophical reasons.
Still always moving