matt comments on Open Thread: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: matt 11 October 2009 08:08:28PM 0 points [-]

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).

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 27 October 2009 11:05:06AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: pdf23ds 11 October 2009 11:19:50PM *  2 points [-]

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.)

Comment author: matt 13 October 2009 03:23:31AM 1 point [-]

(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

Comment author: Jonii 13 October 2009 03:36:02AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: matt 14 October 2009 01:46:11AM 0 points [-]

Something like the playback-feature on Google Wave would rock.

Yes, that would rock. Unfortunately it's not a small feature.