06.07.06
blogroll. Hmm, upgrades…
Look again… more changes, feedback welcome (positive/negative/observational)…
http://www.byteclub.net/blog/index_comments.php
I haven’t linked in and checked the external blog comment feeds - i’m working on it and get it happening i promise.
Still think the count of post/comments is too high? Let me know your opinions.
Would really like to be able to sort comments by “post” (thread)? Let me know (pretty easy to do now).
Runs like a dog? Probably cache issues (but i did have to restart apache tonight… dunno what the deal is).
All feeds (blogs or comments) are cached for 10 mins, but I think there may be other proxy+chache issues causing havoc… it would be great to see things quicker!
pimaster said,
June 7, 2006 at 9:43 am
Yes, speed is the big issue. Even the current MAGPIE caching seems rather bad.
Zooba said,
June 7, 2006 at 11:28 am
Agreed. Was slow to load. I also pity anyone using a smaller screen resolution than mine - at least it agrees with IE changing the font size.
Is there any need for Recent Posts aswell as Blogroll? I quite liked the last few posts for each person - maybe 2 or 3 each?
Xavier said,
June 7, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Lovely. Looks great in Opera. Contrary to zooba I prefer the recent posts to the last few posts thing. Blog Roll does seem a little redundant, though is still necessary for infrequent posters. Maybe sort it alphabetically and move over to the right out of the way?
Mark said,
June 7, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Maybe you limit the recent posts and recent comments to 10 posts and have them in the same column.. for better use of the real-estate.
Clinton said,
June 7, 2006 at 7:21 pm
After a chat with John, I have modified magpierss (well, it’s including snoopy so that’s what got modified) so that getting local feeds happen *without* going through the proxy. I know that may sound *really* obvious, but there wasn’t an easy “use proxy except for …” setting - only all proxy or none… but there is now! :~)
I’m hoping that will improve some of the delay grief. As for external feeds, i’m almost tempted for a cron job and only reading cached feeds on the web page, but that will be higher load over time… but fast for us! Hmm…
I’ll try a mini blogroll moved over to the right… and perhaps AJAX based post for the last few post on demand. I was also thinking some JS would be nice to have, say, the post of a blogger highlighted when you hover over thier blogroll, or all the comment highlighted when you hover over the post, or all the comments for a particular post when on any … etc.
+ there is still the re-exported aggregated posts/comment as rss to go…
Andrew B Coathup said,
June 7, 2006 at 11:35 pm
I love the “recent comments”, it helps build the community as it iseasy to follow what are the topics of the day.
The column widths could be smaller as the recent comments and recent posts feel too wide, especially compared with the blogroll.
Great work. The amount of recent posts and comments are driven by access to a good view of what is happening. It really helps to build the community.
Clinton said,
June 8, 2006 at 12:00 am
Andrew: based on your suggestion, i stopped making table width 100% and left it as auto. I’ve also set the table to auto margin left/right (aka align=”center” in the good-ole-days :) and see how that goes.
I’m noticing that i haven’t accounted for trackback style comments… (ie pi master on zooba’s recent blog) … that’s makes things wider than they should be… so that will need to be look …
i’ve also got feeds working (beta versions! they don’t validate at feevalidator.org yet..) for either our posts or comments, however i want to work out performance issues before they (potentially) get hammered!
pimaster said,
June 8, 2006 at 11:39 am
Loving the new mini list on the right. Useful when it is required, out of the way most of the time.
Nice work.