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I like to spend my Saturday nights doing wild and crazy things, like installing blog plug-ins. Yesterday night I installed the Simply Threaded plug-in, which I hope you all will take full advantage of. It allows you to respond directly to any comment on a post, displaying your comment directly underneath and indented, instead of displaying your comment at the bottom of all the comments (though you can still do that too). This is handy because it will allow me to directly respond to people’s questions instead of editing comments and inserting my answers in bold text as I have been doing. Here’s an example of how it looked when I responded to Jeni’s question about Cliff Blox:

Threaded comments

All you have to do is click the “Reply” link on any person’s comment. Your browser will then jump to the bottom of the page where a checkbox will have appeared with the name of the person who’s post you are replaying to. If you are using Firefox, the checkbox is automatically checked. If you are using Internet Explorer, you’ll have to check it yourself. (Don’t make me explain why, just know that cross-browser compatibility issues like this is why IE makes web developers scream “Aye-eee!”)

Threaded comments

Now just type your comment like normal and hit the “Post” button. Your comment will then appear indented below the comment you replied to. This feature doesn’t work if you hit the “Preview” button. Sorry, not my fault, I didn’t write the plug-in. If you just want to reply at the bottom of the post, comment like you always have, or if you already hit “reply” just uncheck the box.

Hopefully this will help make discussions in the comments less confusing. A couple weeks ago there was a kerfuffle when two people used the name “Red” when they replied to a post and someone else commented on what the first Red said, but the second Red thought the person was replying to her and OH MY GOD this is how wars start! So, no more. Please don’t be scared to try the new commenting system. It’s okay if you screw up once or twice. I’ll fix any obvious errors or double posts. Feel free to practice on this post if you want. Enjoy!

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  5. You think your Saturday night was exciting? I went to the gym at 10pm on Friday. I felt SO cool walking back past the bars between the gym and my apartment at 11:30pm all sweaty from my workout when others were all dressed up for going out in the city. Woot!

  8. This will be much better. :-) Good use of your Saturday night… I spent mine cleaning my apartment and starting on a 60-page final project (but soon college will be over FOREVER, so it’s okay! lol).

  9. Techie geeks and pet people ~ I’ll never understand you. I love you, mind you, but I’ll never understand you. And if your techie geek tendencies make my life go smoother, then who am I to complain?! I love my computer for what it helps me accomplish, but I haven’t the faintest idea how any of it works…and I don’t care to know, either, as long as it keeps doing it. I’m glad you’re having fun with this latest innovation!

  13. Obviously you have a sickness! I mean, I’m a crazy runner & log all sorts of exercise hours, but 11:30 is bed time! :)

  16. Oh, cool, now your blog is one step closer to Drupal. ;-)

    This is one of those logically-should-be-an-improvement but in-practice-sucks things. When the comments regularly exceed 100, yeah, as a stopgap while you’re setting up your forum software. Otherwise, it’s hard to follow new stuff (unless you’re an obsessive who subscribes to comment RSS feeds). And the chronological order of the discussion is harder to follow.

    You could use an IP address-based avatar system to give people a visual hint that “Red” may not be “Red.”

  21. This is hella cool! Just wanted to mention, I use Firefox and I can’t see the styling for the comments ie the boxes aren’t there so it’s hard to tell who belongs to what comment! I promise I am not one of those anally retentive “YEAH BUT it doesn’t in Opera or Zorg4.0” people!

  23. You’re not a twit! The same thing happened to me when I was testing it. I think your stylesheet was probably cached. Refreshing the page fixes it in case anyone else has the same problem.

  26. Hmmm… I’m a bit of a techie geek (PQ, you are a role model for me in more than one way, since my geekdom only aspires to the level of designing web pages) and I’m a huge pet person. So do they cancel each other out, and then you can understand me… Like multiplying two negative numbers give you a positive number? (Told you I was a geek… so stop rolling your eyes at the math analogy! sheesh)

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