A while back, we asked you about some changes we were considering to our comments.
We listened, developed, tested and Wednesday we rolled out threaded comments on all of our sites.
What does this mean? Well, in short, that’s up to you. You could still comment the way you have been, with the most recent comment at the end.
But we think having threading will help you and us keep conversations together. Want to respond to something a specific commenter has said? Just reply to that comment. Your comment will be grouped with the other comment and it will be easier to follow the conversation.
Whenever I or anyone else on the staff replies to a comment of yours, we’ll be using the reply feature.
Incidentally, we also made one other small change when we rolled out threaded comments. When we remove a comment, instead of being bright red (or pink), that comment is now grayed out. After discussing it with Ben Spaulding, one of our internal designers, we agreed that drawing attention to removed comments was probably the exact thing we didn’t want to do.
If you have questions or feedback about either of these changes, please leave them in the comments below.
