By: Alfman
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441404">sukru</a>.
sukru,
<blockquote>Don’t get this wrong, but where do the checkboxes come from in that example?</blockquote>
Sorry, I don't follow what you are asking. Checkboxes?
The link was a prototype using client side scripting to rearrange the comments in chronological order without making any changes to wordpress itself. In the example every comment is supposed to have a link at the top right, the idea being that you can click on it to toggle the threading mode without loosing your position.
The motivation was to improve the situation with wordpress making it extremely cumbersome to identify new comments in threaded view. The old website didn't have this problem because there was a chronological sorting option which listed all new posts at the bottom.
By: sukru
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441404">sukru</a>.
Alfman,
Don't get this wrong, but where do the checkboxes come from in that example?
By: Alfman
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441404">sukru</a>.
sukru,
<blockquote>The old old site?
Want’s that shut down due to a some security issue? I think all accounts were hacked at one point.</blockquote>
Yes, that one. Editing was allowed for 20 minutes. Another aspect some people here probably remember is that it handled deeply threaded discussions a lot better than wordpress does now. We could also sort the comments chronologically, which I missed enough to develop a workaround.
Osnews didn't use it, but I prototyped a client side toggle button on the comments that switches between threaded and chronological mode to recreate the capability that the old website had.
http://vocabit.com/osnews/sort_comments_2.html
By: sukru
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441397">Alfman</a>.
The old old site?
Want's that shut down due to a some security issue? I think all accounts were hacked at one point.
By: drcouzelis
That's great! Now it's more comfortable making comments. :)
EDIT: I forgot to mention I use Arch Linux. ;)
By: Alfman
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441394">Thom Holwerda</a>.
Do you know if this ever happened on the old site that had a 20 minute editing window?
By: Thom Holwerda
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441383">Parodper</a>.
I can actually increase the timer, but I really only want editing being used to fix typos and such. A longer timer might lead to people comment-sniping and such, which, even unintentionally, will make reading OSAlert comments much messier.
By: 0brad0
Annoying when a comment section or forum does not support editing.
By: Morgan
In reply to <a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/#comment-10441383">Parodper</a>.
If I recall correctly, way back when we had comment editing after the move to Wordpress, it was on a five minute timer. I'm getting old, and I honestly don't recall much about the custom site we had before the WP switch, or the one before that when we could sign up for accounts way back in 2005 or 2006 (I think I was user #92 to sign up or something like that?). I do recall the original OSAlert site back when Eugenia was managing editor, and comments were not threaded at all and accounts didn't exist.
By: Parodper
I'm always surprised comment editing isn't a standard Wordpress feature.
Edit: Huh, so it's 5 minutes. I don't know how to feel about it.
By: DigitalHippie
Thanks a lot Thom!
By: rlees42
Woot woot! (A vast improvement over my original edit. Just kidding -- that gold is 1st time home run.)
By: sukru
Yes!
Thank you.
And... can you also give us some code markup? A <b>tt</b> or <b>pre</b> would be awesome. If if has syntax highlighting, doubly so!
Test: test
Test: test
By: Alfman
Many of us have been missing this...thanks!
Knock on wood it doesn't break again after another wordpress update.
Edit: I see you are using a different wordpress plugin this time. The buttons look huge on my screen, haha. No matter, as long as it works :)
By: tux2bsd
That's a good change. Will see if editing works. End of Message.
Edit: Yes it does.