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| If you have questions about the site or a feature request, please post a comment here. Some of the things I'm considering: Let me know what you think about these ideas and about any others you might have! |
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| hierarchical subject categories needed | ||
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| Just like yahoo!!! | ||
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| Editing comments | ||
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| AJ said it would be easy to allow us to edit or cancel our own comments. I think it's a great idea. | ||
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| Hmmm... | ||
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| This becomes a problem if other people have already replied to you comment. (How do you delete it, then? Get rid of theirs too? etc.) I may allow editing if no one else has responded yet. | ||
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| The usual | ||
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| Most sites that allow comment editing append a note that says "This comment was edited by X on Y" at the end. If someone deletes a comment with replies, they keep the comment in with empty text and a note "This comment was deleted." | ||
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| caching, genres, and new windows | ||
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| as requested AJ here are my comments! : love the site, great articles, yes to the local caching, and I also think we should have genres into which you categorise your submitted articles (eg. humour, education, business, technology, Bush, California, you-won't-believe-this, Science, wtf, entertainment etc).Then you can search through genres once this site becomes supremely popular and becomes submerged in articles as I'm sure it will. I also feel very strongly ;) that the articles should open in a new window so we don't get caught in one of those link domino trails and remember that we were browsing NewsDog not reading the terms and conditions for some $1 million prize draw...or something.. | ||
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| As for opening in a new window -- | ||
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| you can do that yourself in IE by holding down Shift while clicking the link. That may be the easiest solution, as many people prefer being able to control them selves if the link should open in the same window or a new one. However, if the problem is still annoying, I'll see if I can do something about it :) | ||
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| Link tags | ||
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| Seems like a lot of comments end up having some sort of web address in them. I know you don't want HTML in comments, but maybe you want to do something about this (regexps?) so that people don't have to copy and paste. | ||
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| Links | ||
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| I'm not sure what you mean by copy and paste.... To make a link, just use the link[url] construct and it'll show up as a link, as in http://www.cnn.com/ | ||
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| Although... | ||
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| now that I think about it.. it might be better to also search for all "http://..." strings and make them links too, automatically. | ||
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| I just didn't read above to see the link construct. Catching http:// might be nice, too, though. | ||
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| Actually... | ||
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| on the main page, in the "post the article" section, you don't mention that you can use the link construct in the comments section. | ||
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| Yeah dude... | ||
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| I'm planning on revamping the whole posting rules soon. | ||
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| frivolous fix | ||
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| when the url or title of the article is too long, it makes the article's box extend outside the width of the page, making it so that you have to scroll left and right as you're reading each line. can you make the url and title wrap to the next line instead of making the box wider? or would that screw up linking? no, of course it wouldn't screw up linking becuase it's just a "table" and you change the property that defines how text wraps, right? gah???? yeah, like you make "# views | # comments" wrap to a new line.... =) | ||
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| Hi Judy, What browser are you using? When I made the site I verified (I think) that this behavior doesn't happen in IE or Mozilla, as I agree it's a totally annoying problem. Some other browsers may be less standards-compliant. |
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| Ah I see | ||
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| Yeah so Mozilla has that problem too... IE wraps on dashes and stuff. I don't know how to force Mozilla to wrap stuff. I've hacked it so that long URLs only show the first part and then some ellipses... | ||
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| This is a test comment | ||
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| I hope this test works. Now, you have to explicitly select a comment to respond to (or click on the link to make a top-level comment); too many people seem to be mistakenly responding to nothing. | ||
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| Colors | ||
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| are a little bit strange. I want skins with hints and other bells and whistles. I also want to attach files, i18n, emoticons, embedded jukebox, and a stock ticker with pictures of hot asian chicks instead of stock quotes. |
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| Hehe, Halloween | ||
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| You probably saw it when I was fooling around with Halloween colors :). Should be back to normal now. | ||
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| I noticed that the article view counter seems not to distinguish between multiple clicks by the same person and separate clicks by different people. While this is not a hugely important feature, it would be cool to build something that does at least some rudimentary filtering (by IP address or something). | ||
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| View counter | ||
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| Hi Ryan, for pure speed, the current way is the easiest way to go. (I'd hate to stress the OCF servers even more.) Doing it the right way would involve storing every IP addr/article pair in the database. You're absolutely correct, though, that that's the right way to do it -- if I ever move the site to newsdog.org or something, that's how it'll be :). In fact, I'm going to test how OCF handles greater load soon, as I want to do the "bold link with new comments" thing properly too, and that will require a similar effort. So if that works, I can fix this too. Until then, though, use the view counter as a rough guide only... |
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| rss feed | ||
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| hey aj. you should make a newsdog rss feed. then go to http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ and make a newsdog syndicated account. so we can all read newsdog from our livejournal friends pages. because that would be really really cool. (i know nothing about rss feeds. something about xml, and obvious orange xml buttons. har) (also, * makes italics, not bold? also, why does _ mess up searching?) |
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| That's a great idea! | ||
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| I just got the "newsdog" LJ name :). I think making RSS feeds shouldn't be that hard. Maybe I'll do it over break. Oh yeah, this is italics because italics generally looks and reads better :). A bit strange, I know... I would have liked to use stars for bold and _ for italics. But the reason I can't is that if you say "_foobar_", the search engine parser (that, sadly I didn't get to write... comes with the database) considers it one big word, "_foobar_", so if you search for just "foobar" it won't find it. But if you use ".foobar." (pretend those dots are stars), then it's smart enough to realize that the word is just "foobar". |
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| RSS | ||
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| Now that I've jumped on the RSS reader bandwagon, I'd be a user of a NewsDog RSS feed as well. Incidentally, check out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=newsdog&btnG=Google+Search; it was inevitable. | ||
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| RSS Feed | ||
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| Is finally done: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ajs/newsdog.xml |
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| article feedback other than comment | ||
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| I'd like to say I enjoyed reading an article without leaving a comment saying that alone...maybe something like the eprops on the Xanga blogs. | ||
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| That sounds like a good idea. | ||
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| Should there be an ediss option as well? :) Or maybe we should try to stay positive... |
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| Nah | ||
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| I think a lack of props will be sufficient for a diss :) | ||
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| "next 12 articles" | ||
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| The "next 12 articles" link should be at the top right of the page, not the bottom left. If you're looking for something in particular, you're scanning forward in time meaning up the screen, only to find that you need to go forward in time even further, but the link isn't at the top of the screen where you are. It's at the bottom where you started. Yes I really overanalyze things like this. |
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| Compromise | ||
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| I put both on the top and the bottom :) | ||
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| new york times links | ||
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| Just a tip: when posting nytimes links, run them through this web page first: http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink That way, they never expire. |
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| Wow, that's weird. And cool, if it keeps working. | ||
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| I could run all the existing NewsDogged NYTimes links through that thing... | ||
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| Here's where I learned about it | ||
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| http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,64110,00.html | ||
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| This is a test comment | ||
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| ... to see if the comments RSS works. | ||
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| Comments broken in Safari | ||
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| something you did about 2 months ago caused the "reply to this comment" link to be broken in Safari (and probably by extension, other KHTML-based browsers). it worked before, but now, when you click on the "reply..." link, the page reloads, with the "In Response To" field blank. You can still make top-level comments, but anything else is impossible. |
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| Fixed | ||
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| Okay, this is fixed now. Thanks for your help, Steve. Let me know if you have any problems. |
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| awesome | ||
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| here's the proof it works :?) | ||
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| anyone else find this version better? | ||
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| http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~ajs | ||
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| This is a test comment | ||
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| On the new, faster site. | ||
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| (no subject) | ||
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| way to go, aj! | ||
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| Another test | ||
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| To see if the new mail system is working. | ||
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| Maybe this one will work | ||
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| Instead. | ||
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| Okay, email comment stuff is not working. And I don't know why. Will look into it soon. | ||
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| I believe | ||
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| This should fix it. | ||
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| Broken again? | ||
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| I haven't gotten emailed about the last couple comments on articles I submitted. | ||
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| Fixed, I hope | ||
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| Thanks for letting me know. I forgot to fix this when I moved over to dreamhost. If you see this comment but didn't get the corresponding email, let me know. | ||
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