So the Dev Team has been hard at work fixing up issues with with the 17_02 release. We compiled all of your comments from the 17_02 Meta stories into a large bug and feature request list. We have been working on getting these issues fixed as soon as we can.
You may have noticed some changes over the last week that went out to fix some issues, and we just released some more fixes today.
Here is a list of the major fixes since the last story:
And here are the latest updates:
Continuation of:
Site Update 17_2
Comments Redux
Site Update: The Next Episode
Site Update - Taking a Breather
Outstanding Issues
So if you see any new bugs that you think are related to these changes, or just want to let us know about an ongoing issue, please feel free to comment below.
Here are the currently known bugs that we are working on:
And here are the feature requests:
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @02:45PM (4 children)
On the main page, where each story shows "n comments", can we have something like "n comments (m read)" or "n comments (m unread)"?
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:28PM (3 children)
Yes, I thought of this, and mentioned it on IRC, but I missed adding it to the list. I"ll add it to the feature requests.
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @04:26PM (2 children)
I'd like to see a number for each threshold. This would be especially helpful with slow browsers and slow connections. For example:
3 8 22 46 91 or 93 comments
(the "3" is score 5, the "91" is score 0, the "93" is score -1)
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:00PM (1 child)
This would not make a difference. We changed how comment are sent and any threshold level will yield the same download speed. We limit file size with the pagination of comments.
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:14PM
I think what the GP is requesting is that, say I have just a couple minutes to read a story. At the moment, I see there are 93 comments. I know I do not have enough time to read all 93 comments. Hmm, even 22 would be too many, so I'll click on the "8" and only see the +4 moderated stories.
IIRC, there was support in the ancient inherited code for something like this... called breadcrumbs or some such. Whether it could be easily merged into the new comment processing code is another matter, entirely.
Of course, things start getting really interesting when one adds in the concept of how many of those are new and how many have already been read... how do you compute and display all of that in a reasonable fashion?
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