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8 comments so far
Paul Smith 30 Sep 08
The gawker threaded comments are very confusing. I was on there a couple days ago and when I clicked the plus I didn’t even know anything was happening. There isn’t any real visual cue that the replies are there, and that they are a reply to a comment. I do like the Threadless shopping cart image though.
Paul Smith 30 Sep 08
Hmm, I went back and it does a slide effect down, but if there are more than about five comments once you scroll down it’s hard to figure out which ones are replies and which ones are comments. They should have indented them like engadget.com does it. It’s much easier to understand.
Benjy 30 Sep 08
The Anthropologie thing reminds me of the original “Wheel of Fortune” format, where they’d spend their winnings on stuff from a room setting…
Nathan Youngman 30 Sep 08
Interestingly, WordPress 2.7 will support threaded comments, so we should be seeing a lot more of that real-soon-now.
http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/
Douglas Greenshields 01 Oct 08
I’d like to see an investigation into how many people actually read threaded comments. My guess: not many. It seems a spectacularly bad way of archiving readers’ contributions. Never a good way of taking a conversation forward. Can you imagine how confusing it would make this blog, for example?
well 01 Oct 08
Cant find where on Anthropoligy your screen comes from (tried several times, bad usability or bad user)
Manuel Martensen 02 Oct 08
@ Matt. Good that you added Closed and Open captions below the Gawker screenshots. Weird that they recieved SVN attention if they need those captions though.
Charles 03 Oct 08
The only places where I’ve seen threaded comments work are Slashdot and Digg. Digg wins out by far IMO – it’s rating system is so much slicker than Slashdot’s.
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