#new comment system

[rhymephile]

More than four paragraphs? Keep Effing Reading

I know everyone is losing their shit over the new comment system and how it's like 2005 up in here, but for the love of everything that's holy, can you guys learn how to use the goddamn "Keep Reading" button?!

[cjskyelark]

This update is really testing my patience.

[allthedavesallofthem]

Am I the only one who isn’t that horrified by the upcoming comments update?

I mean, I’m honestly not that big of a fan of the comment system we have now. in the current iteration, sometimes I find it confusing to figure out who said what in a long comment chain, since you have to scroll up to the top of the chain, then trace the line down from their name to their comment.

I do think a few additional features would be nice, such as comment timestamps (and timestamps in general, outside of Xkit) and the ability to do some form of nesting replies, i.e. the ability to reply to a comment farther up the chain and have it appear nested directly below it, but it’s not like Tumblr’s current “every comment sub-nests beneath every comment that came before it in sequential order” implementation does that stuff anyway.

Beyond that, my main concern about the new system is that it includes each blog’s icon, which looks like it’s going to make comment chains take up a LOT more vertical space. This is a significant concern, but still, it’s not like it’s the end of the world or something.

Of course, I do think Tumblr has a lot better things that it could be doing than this, such as *ahem* creating a usable messaging system, or improving the way tag searching works, but I don’t find anything particularly awful about this specific thing they’re doing, other than “adjusting to change is difficult.”

So at worst, this update is looking like “just another pointless design update that doesn’t really change a whole lot,” and at best, looks like “something that might slightly improve a minor thing a little bit.” I’m just not terribly moved by it one way or the other...

[xxcodswag420yolo6969gamergurlxx]

Man, I thought Facebook's switch to timeline caused an uprise, but this new YouTube comment system is going to start a popular revolution.

[psycommando]

Youtube new comment system...

You know, I've been pretty passive at all those previous annoying changes to youtube, but now its getting pretty bad..

The guy with the funny accent speaks the truth! :

http://youtu.be/_1sqq4HoO3Y?t=11m10s

And especially when he gestures it !:

http://youtu.be/_1sqq4HoO3Y?t=12m17s

But seriously, I'm sick of Google's abysmal handling of all their services.. And of their policies as well.. That automated DMCA and ads things on Youtube has created more unneeded drama than the Sonic fandom.. No offense Sonic fandom ^^;

It made so many false positives and continues to do so! It even happened to me, and locked some of my starfox snes videos in some countries because it identified the track as belonging to some individual with no name or contact coordinates for some reasons, instead of Nintendo. And it wanted to put ads on it...

I got really pissed and wrote google a nice message in the description of each videos along with a counter-notice, and everything was fixed it seems.. Not sure what did it.. But still, I really don't need to have to do that for every videos I make... Gotta find a better video site, but right now they're all emulating Youtube as far as I saw..

Anyways, nobody reads this, so I'll stop ranting now.. Still feels good to pollute the web..

[michaelwbrennan]

Disqus

So I learned today that tumblr.'s reply system leaves something to be desired. Found an easy alternative called Disqus. It allows followers to directly comment on my posts instead of re blogging them.