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Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation

posted by NCommander on Thursday June 04 2015, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the lets-do-this-right dept.
So as the post-upgrade dust settles, one of the big things still left on our usability TODO list is implementing inline reply and moderation for the site. A quick survey of our developers is that no one here really is super experienced in writing JavaScript code, so I'm putting a call for help to find someone to help implement and write this. For anyone getting interested in SN development, this appears to be a straightforward task. Here's the official requirements for the feature.
  • A user should be able to post and moderate comments without a seperate page load
  • If JavaScript is disabled for whatever reason, the site must degrade to the current click-to-post functionality. We don't want to force people to enable JS if they don't wish to. Dynamically rewriting the DOM to change links may be necessary, but this can be discussed
  • The rehash API must be extended to add this functionality; this should be relatively easy and straight forward; we have parts of the original AJAX code so this functionality may already be in place.

  • Contact me, or paulej72 on IRC, or post a comment below if you're interested in helping.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bryan on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:40PM

    by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:40PM (#192148) Homepage Journal

    Inline comment replies [pipedot.org] (March 2015) and navigation-less comment moderation [pipedot.org] (March 2014) have been enabled on Pipedot for some time now.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:55PM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:55PM (#192159) Homepage

    Your effort in bringing pipedot to life as a one-man-show with many great features is pretty awesome bryan, much respect. I especially like the highlighting of new comments. If I wasn't so busy helping SN I would support pipedot more (I did buy one of your usb sticks and still check in from time to time).

    --
    (Score:1^½, Radical)

    • (Score: 2) by bryan on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:19PM

      by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:19PM (#192173) Homepage Journal

      I can't take all the credit. Pipedot has some really amazing editors (and commenters) that continue to contribute despite the site's small size.

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:22PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:22PM (#192177) Journal

    And you have a mobile site, something that I don't believe Rehash has.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @06:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @06:48AM (#192393)

      Separate mobile sites are bad. A site should work on both from the same URL. All to often Wikipedia links go to the mobile version which just isn't good for my desktop. I'm sure many mobile users feel the same about links to the desktop version.

      The link should lead to the content, and the version should be decided by the web browser depending on the system accessing it (and possibly user preferences to allow overriding the default decision).

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @08:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @08:44AM (#192422)

        and the version should be decided by the web browser

        I of course meant "web server" here …