Comments module rollout to all blogs
Post categories: blogs
|11:25 UK time, Monday, 28 March 2011
Last week we rolled out the new comments module across all BBC blogs. This is following a trial run on ten blogs including Robert Peston, Dan Walker and this one which have had the new module since November.
There have been several tweaks made during the trial period in response to your feedback and it is now ready for wider release.
What is changing?
• Moderation links will be pointing to the correct pages (i.e. on blogs rather than message boards)
• Improved caching for better response and faster page loads
• The comment box is now slightly shallower initially and only gets deeper when you click into it and start typing,
• When you leave a new comment this will be highlighted until you leave or refresh the page.
• Number of comments on a blog post has been reduced to 100 per page. This reduces load time and is better for search engine optimisation of blog posts.
Richard Summers, the lead developer for the comments module, will provide further insight into how this was delivered in a blog post to be published later today.
Jessica Shiel is Product Manager for Blogs, User Services, Programmes and On-Demand, BBC Future Media & Technology
Comment number 1.
At 13:24 28th Mar 2011, daveac wrote:All these changes except one sound fine.
I'm worried that the '100 comments per page' will somehow become a 'limit' to the total number of replies allowed to each blog.
Some Blogs - especially those on the debates about the picture quality of BBC HD when bit-rates were reduced - gathered over a 1000 comments.
Please allow replies to blogs whilst there is continued interest in the particular topic.
Cheers, daveac
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Comment number 2.
At 13:53 28th Mar 2011, Nick Reynolds wrote:daveac - to reassure you, the decision as to when to close a blog to comments is down to the owner of the individual blog and unrelated to the standard of 100 comments per page.
Thanks
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Comment number 3.
At 10:06 29th Mar 2011, Russ wrote:You've just screwed up a whole pile of links to a user's profile.
Russ
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Comment number 4.
At 10:12 29th Mar 2011, Russ wrote:You've also screwed up the links from a user's profile to each blog.
Russ
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Comment number 5.
At 11:44 29th Mar 2011, Nick Reynolds wrote:Russ - how? I checked the links from your profile back to this blog and they seem to be o.k.
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Comment number 6.
At 14:07 29th Mar 2011, Eponymous Cowherd wrote:@5. Nick Reynolds.
If you sign in, then click your name at the top "You are currently signed in as....", you go to an invalid profile page with no posts. If you click the "you" on one of your posts you go to the correct profile.
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