This was inspired by Daican-2’s flood of activity. Hehe, no that’s not a problem, but it occurred to me that comments aren’t very “discoverable” once they drop off the recent list (of 10) on the sidebar and the post they’re attached is no longer on the front page.
So I added a special page where you can see the last 50 100 comments. It also shows the whole comments, not just the name of author and post it was on. I don’t know how popular this will be, so rather that put it on the main navigation bar, it’s accessible by clicking “More…” under the regular Recent Comments list in the sidebar. (And as I’ve mentioned before, when I “sidebar” that translates to “bottom of the page” for mobile.) Anyway, it’s there, if anyone feels the need to catch up on recent discussion.
On a vaguely related note, something that also came up recently: If you make a sufficiently embarrassing typo or other error in a comment, don’t hesitate to reply to yourself asking me to fix it. Like “EDIT baked=naked” or whatever, and I’ll fix it and delete the extra comment. Or you can just redo the whole comment correctly and reply to the old one asking me to delete it, that works too. Anyway, it’s only a tiny bit of work for me, and since I was never able to find a practical way to let you edit your own comments directly, I don’t mind taking care of it from time to time.
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Perhaps you could add an “Older Comments” button to it as well?
Like to show the next older 50 after that? Not a bad idea, but unfortunately, I’m once again limited by the plugins that are available. I don’t think the one I’m using can do that.
I was more thinking adding that same button that let’s us view older things everywhere else on the site to the comments page.
Like for example: I remember an old post that had a link to a secret upload, and you made it a secret upload because the caption wouldn’t make any sense unless you read that comment chain, but I for the life of me, can’t remember/find the pic that that comment chain is on.
But regardless, if you’re unable to add that button to the comments page, then eh oh well *shrug* .
Yeah, that would amount to the same thing and I can’t see a good way to do it at the moment.
Here’s the secret caption though, for what that’s worth.
And the one that inspired it.