What’s the best way to follow the new comments on a thread you’ve already read through? How do you keep up with which ones are new? It’d be nice if there were a non-threaded view. RSS feed?
My thought would be a “recent posts in your subscribed threads” kind of a feature, as they have on forums. In other words, an ability to add specific posts to a personal watchlist, and then have a page like the “new comments page” that only shows comments to posts on your watchlist.
Something like the playback-feature on Google Wave would rock. Some neat way to specify that you only want to see(or highlight) comments that were made after some specific time would also be nice.
What’s the best way to follow the new comments on a thread you’ve already read through? How do you keep up with which ones are new?
Kaj’s suggestion (http://lesswrong.com/comments/) is your best bet, but there is another option that might merit consideration: if you happen to know that a new relevant comment is likely to be authored by JohnJones or Sally_Smith, keep an eye on the following 2 non-threaded views:
What’s the best way to follow the new comments on a thread you’ve already read through? How do you keep up with which ones are new? It’d be nice if there were a non-threaded view. RSS feed?
Scanning through the new comments page is probably your best bet, though I wish there was a better solution.
Any ideas for a better solution? The devs are busy, but they’re listening (and if the devs don’t have time, the code is open).
My idea would be to just have a link to a article-specific “recent comments” page on each article.
(But if they’re going to work on anything, they might want to work first on the bug I posted about elsewhere in this thread.)
Hmm… raised as Issue 194
My thought would be a “recent posts in your subscribed threads” kind of a feature, as they have on forums. In other words, an ability to add specific posts to a personal watchlist, and then have a page like the “new comments page” that only shows comments to posts on your watchlist.
Something like the playback-feature on Google Wave would rock. Some neat way to specify that you only want to see(or highlight) comments that were made after some specific time would also be nice.
Yes, that would rock. Unfortunately it’s not a small feature.
Kaj’s suggestion (http://lesswrong.com/comments/) is your best bet, but there is another option that might merit consideration: if you happen to know that a new relevant comment is likely to be authored by JohnJones or Sally_Smith, keep an eye on the following 2 non-threaded views:
http://lesswrong.com/user/JohnJones
http://lesswrong.com/user/Sally_Smith
Pages like those 2 have RSS feeds associated with them, BTW. But, yeah, it would be nice if there were more options.