Threaded Comments Are Live!
John
January 05, 2010, 10:06 AM posted in General DiscussionWe've made the change to threaded comments, and are currently tweaking some small issues. I have written a blog post with more details on the changes.
Please let us know, here, or on the blog comments if you run into any problems. Comments are hugely important to ChinesePod, so we want everything working perfectly.
simonpettersson
December 31, 2009, 11:01 AMWell, it's ... not problem-free. :)
I'm getting three different input fields wen I hit "reply". The top and bottom ones have the top bar with all the buttons, whilst the middle one is a normal text field. Hitting the "Submit" button doesn't do anything, so I can't reply except to the original post.
I'm running Safari on OSX Leopard.
EDIT: I get them when editing, too. The top and bottom fields are empty, and the middle one shows my comment with HTML code. Let's see if I cad edit this.
John
Strange... we've tested in Safari on Mac. Can you send a screenshot to support@praxislanguage.com?
simonpettersson
Huh. Seems to be working now. I had some troubles connecting to the server, as well. Maybe it's related. Hopefully it was temporary.
John
December 31, 2009, 11:05 AMMe too!
John
December 31, 2009, 11:06 AMBusy indeed! Thanks, and 新年快乐!
kimiik
December 31, 2009, 11:07 AMLet's try it !
John
December 31, 2009, 11:08 AMStrange... we've tested in Safari on Mac. Can you send a screenshot to support@praxislanguage.com?
John
December 31, 2009, 11:55 AMAs I mentioned up top, "we want everything working perfectly," and it definitely wasn't, so we reverted. We'll have this fixed and running as soon as possible after the holiday.
Sorry for the delay, guys... I really wanted this done in 2009! :(
bodawei
Good work John, I'm sure it will be a fine ChinesePod feature. There is something odd going on - in the new lesson thread, the oldest ones are on page 2, the newer ones on page 1. Is that a 'design characteristic'? :-) Also, how do you know you got an answer if it doesn't show up in Community?
simonpettersson
December 31, 2009, 12:07 PMDid ... did I just ruin New Year's Eve?
chanelle77
December 31, 2009, 10:59 AMGood job, must be quite a busy last day of the year: you guys have worked hard!
新年快乐！
John
Busy indeed! Thanks, and 新年快乐!
John
January 01, 2010, 09:09 AMrjberki,
Not the same, but similar. It's actually a further developed/refined version of that one.
xiaohu
January 01, 2010, 10:23 AMAll I can say is, 好极了!
xiaophil
January 04, 2010, 09:16 AMHey, it seems to work well now! The only problems is replies don't show up on the conversations page. (Or perhaps that is on purpose?) 谢谢CPod!
bodawei
January 04, 2010, 09:33 AMGood work John, I'm sure it will be a fine ChinesePod feature. There is something odd going on - in the new lesson thread, the oldest ones are on page 2, the newer ones on page 1. Is that a 'design characteristic'? :-) Also, how do you know you got an answer if it doesn't show up in Community?
xiaophil
January 04, 2010, 09:49 AMLooks like they gave up again. It seems like they are close, though. John and anyone else working on this, high-fives to you all!
John
January 04, 2010, 10:03 AMSorry, guys, but when the new changes went live today, they once again caused a few new, unexpected problems. We value our user contributions too much to let a buggy change go live. The new changes will be made ASAP (with 24 hours).
@bodawei: There is that issue, as well as a few others. Unfortunately, our test server cannot completely replicate the live server environment.
@xiaophil: We are indeed close! I'm looking forward to the high-fives when we're really done! :)
John
January 05, 2010, 10:09 AMUpdate!
We were ready to put up the finished threaded comment functionality today, but we discovered a hardware issue forcing yet another delay.
Tomorrow, January 6th, from 1pm-2pm (Shanghai time) the site will go down briefly to fix the hardware issue, and when it comes back up we'll have threaded comments!
Can't wait! :)
simonpettersson
December 31, 2009, 10:55 AMInteresting! Looking forward to seeing how it will work out.