I've created a new category of posts: discussions (the old "discussions" are better described as news/announcements). Discussions have no post body; they're pure comments. They're unique in that images are allowed in comments, using the HTML <img> tag. Example:
*sigh* I made an announcement on the GameDev.net news, but it did nothing... traffic did slightly increase, but no one posted anything. In February when I did it, traffic was huge. Maybe I'll see if I can get people from Flipcode over.
Oh, so comments go the opposite direction here (newest=bottom)? Is that a property specific to discussion threads, or did you set it just for this particular one? Anyways, it's very confusing.... I see no point in having comments going in both directions in different posts, that can only cause confusion. Such an option belongs in the individual user's settings.
(Ok, maybe this should go in the Site Updates thread. But there's so little stuff here, so...
The order (ascending vs descending) can still be changed for all threads, but the default has been changed to newest=bottom, and any threads I create from now on will be in this order. The reason is latest=first is confusing for newcomers -- whenever I visit a site like that, I start reading the comments only realize I'm reading them backwards after a minute. However, if you've seen a post before, it automatically shows you the last page instead of the first, and it can scroll to the last unread comment, but I disabled that for the moment. I think I'll make it a user preference...
But I think you're right -- maybe order should be customizeable. It would be annoying having threads switch directions... OK, when I'm done with classes, I'll work on that.
well, recently with site changes I got some problems.. Firstly a minor one .. your cookies are rejected by high privacy setting in MSIE, so I had to allow the site to use cookies w/o restrictions. (no misuse please, or I'll find you
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And another... I use MSIE with "Favorites" tab always on, on the left side of screen. In 1024x768 I can see the whole post, and comments on the right are visible just partialy, but the scrollbar at the bottom of screen is missing. Once I close "favs" tab on left, the whole page is visible. (and no scrollbar is needed)
well, now I checked it second time, and there was the scrollbar at the bottom, so I don't know, maybe it happens just sometimes??? Anyway, are you dynamically asking for screen width and formatting page for it? If so, maybe you can ask for some "true" width with the favorities pane substracted...
The only page formatting is done by resizing the vertical height of the page -- posts appear in an iframe, which is an embedded frame... anyway I resize it vertically to match the size of the contents. I don't bother with width -- the browser handles that itself.
Oh, I see what you mean... for a post with comments on the right, the post should take up 50% of the screen width, with the comments occupying the other 50%. But sometimes IE appears not to resize things with that favorites menu open. So if the post took up 512 pixels, it still takes up 512 pixels even when the total viewable area is maybe 700, so the comments get cut off.
I can't imagine any way I could get IE to stop doing this... I guess the problem is specifically that the iframe isn't being resized. I've set it to not ever have scrollbars, but maybe I'll have to change that. The problem is some browsers show scrollbars even when they're not needed, so it'll look strange.
