Threading The Comments

This is a great plugin for someone who gets a lot of responses. My blog's still not generating so many responses that I'd need anything like this.

It is nice to know that it's out there, so that once my blog does start generating a lot of comments, I'll know where to look for a helpful plugin.

please delete this, it's just a test to the plugin. Thank you

Okay, after a little more time with the threaded comments I have to say that I don't like them for one reason.

When coming back to a post, it is more difficult to find the newer comments as they can be anywhere in the list, as a reply to an older comment or a new comment at the bottom.

I know it seems most people like the new threaded comments but I just wanted to put this vote against them out there.

Cool plugin - but I think it's more appropriate for "bigger" blogs like yours. And not new blogs that only get 2-3 comments per post ;) I'll probably install this plug-in when I'm getting more comments...

But now you have two ways for people to subscribe to comments. You have a "Subscribe to comments via email" checkbox below the URI and "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail" below "Add comment".

This might confuse people... perhaps you want to disable one of them?

The organization of the comments seems to make it easier for people to respond to other people's posts rather than comment on your site directly. This should turnout with more activity in your comments arena. I think people like to see visitors being involved in a blog. It gives them sotries within the blog i guess...

John,

Absolutely great idea of your introducing this threaded comments. One clear benefit I see for me is that I can have a focused discussion with the other readers on your blog.

From you its makes your life easier to follow up comment threads and keep yourself updated. With the increased number of comments I am sure you must have felt overloaded in managing comments - Was this by any chance the reason why you started searching for a threaded comments possibility in the first place ?

Another benefit is that given that threads have more 'intelligence' as compared a simple list of comments it makes your life easier to come up with topics that your reader base want and find useful.

42% use IE? That's less than half your readers. I do all my work in Firefox and then I look at fixing it in IE.

IE7 is a bit better at following the W3C Standards but I still make everything look the way I want it to in Firefox and then look at fixing it for other browsers.

As for the comments, if you get enough replies on a comment won't it becomes soo squished it would be 1 character per line? Or does the overflow fix that?

I just noticed it up a few replies how it started to get squished.

Looks very nice like already said a lot, hopefully you'll fix those odd CSS things in Firefox.

In addition to that I'd recommend a 'Remember Subscription toggled' button or so, I've got to keep ticking it now if I find something nice. In addition to that the box shows up twice and I don't know how your plugin will handle that ;)

So this is why the comments looks so funny all of a sudden.

Excellent tool. Once I start receiving more comments on my blog, I will be sure to install this. Thanks for the heads up, John!

this is a really cool option :)

Great tool definitely need to try.

Hey this is a great new feature. Guess some of the other blogs where # of comments are high also start using this. It makes life much much easier for your readers

Is this something new because I have not seen it on other blogs though ?

Something strange is happening with some of the comments: they have lines going through the text.

Just saw the same post over at Shoe and then came here to see you have already made the update. It is an interesting plugin though.

looks good. Maybe the colors could be a bit more noticeable.

Installed! Works good on my template.

John, you should set the stylesheet to force a smaller width. I've had this issue before with blogs and it's typically a width issue.

OK, I see the first problem. The reply box pushed my right side bar under my blog when viewed in IE! On Firefox it's fine. Anyone know how to fix this?

If you click "Reply to this comment" and then "Unreply" it distorts the page (FF user) .. Just thought you should know

Now that is an awesome feature.

Good idea. With so many comments it can be tough sometimes to follow the discussions going on by various posters.

My only complain is that the CSS is a little weird, as I liked the old button and such. I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Oh, and when I hit tab I don't go to the 'Add comment' button--that's a pain in the ass. Maybe you can change the focus order to fix it?

great find john, this will make it aloooooooot easier for you im sure. It seems someone will ask you a question and before you get a chance to reply you have 10 people posting comments ahead of you.