1. I’ve set my account setting to display “magical algorithm” comments, but when I read posts I still see them in the order of “oldest”. I guess that’s because of a discrepancy between those drop-down options: in 1 it’s “top scored”, in another it’s “magical”.
2. The truncation of comments works, but sometimes I find it actually making them longer.
Example: the site displays someone’s comment: blah blah blah therefore your argument is i… (Read more) (Click to expand thread. Ctrl F to expand all).
I click Read more. Now it is: blah blah blah therefore your argument is invalid.
So I guess your algorithm of how to display comments looks something like this (pardon my below expression, I’m not a programmer at all):
If [comment_length] >150
then display [1st 150 characters of comment] and [...(Read more) (Click to expand thread. Ctrl F to expand all)]
This leads to the problem as described above. When a comment is 157 char long, for example, this truncate method actually increases the length displayed AND leaves readers like me with a weird feeling after clicking.
Here I propose a solution within my ability of thinking:
If [comment_length] >150
then display [1st 75 characters of comment] and [...(Read more) (Click to expand thread. Ctrl F to expand all)]
So… have those 2 minor things above been mentioned before? If not, I’d like to report. If yes, then are you going to look into them and when can they be changed? :)
[Question] 2 small problems with the site...
They’re more like inconveniences, but still.
1. I’ve set my account setting to display “magical algorithm” comments, but when I read posts I still see them in the order of “oldest”. I guess that’s because of a discrepancy between those drop-down options: in 1 it’s “top scored”, in another it’s “magical”.
2. The truncation of comments works, but sometimes I find it actually making them longer.
Example: the site displays someone’s comment: blah blah blah therefore your argument is i… (Read more) (Click to expand thread. Ctrl F to expand all).
I click Read more. Now it is: blah blah blah therefore your argument is invalid.
So I guess your algorithm of how to display comments looks something like this (pardon my below expression, I’m not a programmer at all):
This leads to the problem as described above. When a comment is 157 char long, for example, this truncate method actually increases the length displayed AND leaves readers like me with a weird feeling after clicking.
Here I propose a solution within my ability of thinking:
So… have those 2 minor things above been mentioned before? If not, I’d like to report. If yes, then are you going to look into them and when can they be changed? :)