Release 88

[markf]

Release 88 is now live!

Features:

• Site-scheme comment pages have been redesigned! Any journal or community which has disabled customized comment pages, such as this community, have been updated. Highlights include the commenting form having improved userpic selection, making it easy to insert links, images, and videos, expand/collapse

Comments

[bwinter]

With removal of the subject lines there is nowhere to click to go straight to a given part of a long collapsed comment thread. Say I want to go directly to the part where user C comes into a conversation between A and B, or read the discussion from December 15 onwards - I have to go from the top and keep clicking Link (because Parent and Thread links are gone now, too). Please at least bring back Parent and Thread links in collapsed comment threads.

Please fix this, and the selection of userpics (we shouldn't have to load all images!)

[yunbuns]

+1

it would've been nice to put that in the subject line!

but the main problem is...i really need my "thread" button back. this is so imperative.

[the_wondering_1]

+1

[lanna_kitty]

+1

oh god. this is all the fail. ALL THE FAIL.
Slow. Removed accessibility and functionality. Tons of wasted space and over-designed extra crap. Whoever thought this was a good idea was mistaken.

Good UI design is about more than snazzy animations and soft, rounded corners. It's about, you know, useability.

[opalgirl28]

EXACTLY.

I took a 1000-level web development class (and a couple of 1100-level programming courses; bb!tech student here) and I know this.

Come on, guys.

[cest_amy]

Usability is totally overrated, duh...

(Maybe they and FB have the same people working for them.)

[schnee]

but the main problem is...i really need my "thread" button back. this is so imperative.

This, for sure!

[taleya]

If you get the "link" showing up, it works, in a patch

But we're still missing the "parent" fucking link. Which makes it useless when viewing anything in flat view.

[dref22]

I was going to say I can see the "link" LOL.

[mad_jaks]

Yes. Yes, it would!

[yunho]

+1

[mortar]

+1

[eevee]

it looks like the Expand link actually points to that comment. so you should be able to middle-click it, or "copy link location", or whatever.

[lady_angelina]

Expand is only available for those with Paid or Permanent accounts, so it won't work for those with Basic or Plus accounts.

[doki_doki]

Uh, no, it's actually not limited to those. My fiancee has it, and she's got the default free account. XD

Edit: Never mind, she has a plus account (just one package with five userpics). STILL. I think the friends I've got with basic accounts can also use the expand feature.

[bwinter]

What is worse, customized comment pages are not available to Basic accounts. I just had to upgrade a community to Plus to be able to use long comment threads - thankfully all us users have Paid and Permanent accounts.