Hello,
Now that the move has been successful, I’m trying out a new commenting system plugin called WPDISCUZ.
You can read more about it here. https://wpdiscuz.com/
The original comment editor I installed last week didn’t work properly for everyone, and it screwed up comment indentation, so I had to disable it.
Try it out, leave a comment, leave a comment rating, try the sort features, etc. You can edit a comment up to 15 minutes after making it.
You can also visit another thread to see how it looks with many comments already in place.
-Anthony
UPDATE: I think I have the “reply” in nested comments working, and the EDIT function working properly. Also, the good news is that once you put in your name and email, it should always remember you….at least that is what I’m told by the documentation.
The bad news: General comment form is at the top, and there appears to be no way to change it according to this thread:
So, just use it for a general comment about the article, or scroll down and reply to an existing comment.
UPDATE2: You can display an image (or YouTube video) within a comment, (see examples in the thread below) but you MUST use https rather than http. Just simply insert the image URL, no tags or HTML needed.
If you use http all you’ll get is a link, but no embedded image.
Feel free to play around with inserting images or video in comments below.
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Reply button also doesn’t work for me (Firefox, Windows 10).
try it again…
Win 10, Firefox – replying to Anthony
upvote worked
I just tried to reply to Tom in Florida’s latest comment, and nothing happened. I appreciate your efforts to improve the site, don’t give up!
Reload the page.
Thanks Joel
It lets me reply to my own comment.
Okay, the comments box is appearing at the top of the screen . Is it supposed to do that?
And the :”reply” button doesn’t work for me. And I see that I have to insert my identity now, so it’s either not recognizing people or something else is wrong with the comment Elves.
And it isn’t recognizing me after the first post, so I have to add my name and e-mail every time.
I’m telling Mom!
And now the reply button is working. Curiouser and curiouser. And it is not remembering me or my e-mail.
Mommy!!!!!!! Make the bad stuff go away!!!
I’m updating, should remember your email now….
Yes comment box is at top, try hitting reply now.
The reply button is now working for me. I just left the site, then came back in, and now it works.
Test …. 1 to 2 minute time to edit should be enough time. Any longer and risk is replying to a comment that has been changed due to original poster editing. Could be an issue that could become a mess with changes leading to changes leading to more editing. 1 or 2 minutes max to edit typos is good enough.
Agree. Adjusting comments after a reply could be detrimental leading to too many cases of he said she said. As W.E. asks, quote the exact words if you disagree, but what if those words get changed by the author after the fact? I think just about everyone is tolerant of typos, missing words and such, we all do it from time to .
You see, I left off the word “time” at the end but you’all know it should have been there.
hey there everybody, just did an update to fix reply issues, try again please
so far the reply works and the vote works
Reply works for me.
It is a mess.
I hate to be to critical, with all the bone crushing hard work which is going into this.
But a few points:
Too busy, too many graphic elements going on.
{Show More} – not optimal to hide stuff.
Comment Box needs to be at the bottom, we need to encourage the more hasty of us to read before commenting. Having the comment box at the top encourages the wrong thing.
WUWT is *not* FACEBOOK.
Vote up, Vote down, Link, Share, Social Media! Do not need, do not want.
The Links:
Displays as light blue on white.
When you cursor over it, it highlights to *White on White*, that is, it *disappears*.
If you click on it, it stays disappeared. Bad.
What rocket scientist came up with that color scheme.
What we need:
1) Inline display of graphics, and hopefully videos.
2) 5 minute edit
Well I’ve only had it enabled for 15 minutes…still tweaking, and accusing me of being like Facebook, well that’s just harsh.
OK, OK.
I try it again, reply works. Like Sara, I have to enter my name and email again. But that is OK for now, at least.
I will wait and see how things shake out after tweaking and optimizing.
Maybe as a Plan B, keep the old system handy, and see if the software gnomes can fix the indent formatting and add the much needed inline graphics.
Doing stuff like this, you *always* want a Plan B. You just never know when things will go from bad to worse.
Inline graphics works now, but you must use https rather than http in the URL, feel free to try it.
Mary had a little lamb.
Her fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was set bright aglow
By catastrophic anthropo-
genic global warming.
I guess I should have rhymed with “albedo”.
Mary had a little lamb,
The doctors were surprised,
When Old McDonald had a farm,
They couldn’t believe their eyes.
OK, here goes. Hot summers in the northern hemisphere and cold autumns in the southern. Who would have thought?
4 emoticons test. Lets see how many work.
😀 😉 :doh: :billgates
Wow, I ended up at the top somehow. 2 for 4 :p
Edit, and now I am back down below. Like a roller coaster in here.
OK, so here’s a test comment, apropos of …. not much.
Yesterday there was a 2-meter space rock (I hesitate to call it an “asteroid”, even though it – just barely! – met the criterion of “asteroid” of having been seen in space before hitting the Earth.)… But this barely-an-asteroid WAS observed, even a couple of HOURS before impact.
Which reminds me of the post-Chelyabinsk meme; “”Asteroids” are nature’s way of asking “How’s that space program coming along?” “
The best thing about the old site was the fonts, especially when reading on the phone. I would copy them verbatim from the old site.
Jeez Anthony, when do you sleep? If I hit the lottery you’ll be he first to know and thanks for your tireless efforts.
Works fine, both edit and reply
I like the new comment system. Edit function seems to work OK. (Windows 10, Firefox 60.0.1) Edit function does too.
Ok Here is my try
Ok Here is here is a change. Humm. it appears to be working
Aha! Its working now, but it missed my name.
Now some people are saying that the development of geothermal energy is responsible for the volcanic eruptions in Hawaii. So removing thermal energy from a volcano causes it to become more active? What’s up with that? (the edit option seems to work)
Reply gives me a google search to the meaning of reply.
I think you are joshing me…
Joshing Anthony…
roflmao ………….. repeatedly w/edit …… edit works!
Nicely done Joel! Where’s Josh when we need him for a little Grecian formula edit? 😉
No need for Grecian Formula. He’s frosted.
Comment button on top of thread and currently showing 67 prev comments and labeled ‘leave a reply.
I have 2 tabs open and will time between posting comment on this tab (#1) and it showing on tab#2 . I was not able to even refresh tab #1 earlier comment for about 10 min but comment showed up on tab #2.
I time this comment and reply back to this comment on tab#1 and simply monitor thread on tab #2
Post comment 9:53
Comment on thread showed up immediately on tab#2 after refreshing. Then Tab #1 offered an immediate chance for reply which is this.
Now going to post this comment and check results with this tab and not refresh tab#2
Posting time 9:58
9:58 comment showed up immediately after posting on this tab #1
Posting time 10:00
Like the color of commenter Name
What about an ‘original comment’ box also at the bottom (after the last comment)? If I read the comments starting from the top to the last and I want to make a comment (not a reply), I have to scroll all the way to the beginning comment.
EDIT – Testing the ‘edit’ feature: my comment above is just an observation; don’t know if valid or useful, or not
This tab#1 is inverted or reversed with my comments shown on top.
Tab#2 that I am only using for monitoring has my comments at the bottom or normal position.
I will try refresh tab#1 after this post
Post time 10:05
After refreshing tab#1 my comments moved to bottom and thread is in normal set-up per previous WUWT format
Post time 10:08
Commenting now on tab #1
Not sure where this is going to go. I can’t refresh so see if I can comment.
Post time 10:55
Can’t cancel comment/reply to 10:05 and comment to 10:08. Seems if you pick a reply there’s no way to cancel.
Hope this helps
Post time 10:15
I’m forced to make a comment. Cant cancel or refresh this tab#1.
Tab#2 allowed a page refresh and all seems well there. Comments are in proper order on tab#2.
Post time 10:21
I’m replying on tab#2 this comment.
Tab#1 is ‘locked in’ now. I can’t refresh page. Comment before lock-up was 10:21
For what it’s worth I ‘m using Firefox.
Post time 10:49
Clicking on the ‘reply button’ a second time will allow you to escape the ‘reply’ function. Don’t believe the cancel option, it’s a crap button.
Post time 11:03
Hello, trying out the new comments system…
Liked it.
Except that now when a post exceeds more than a paragraph the comment goes into youtube mode where it is necessary to click “read more” to see the rest of the comment. Probably so annoying that i can already see it is not worth looking at the comments section unless one is willing to get a jackhammer to click all the “read more” interruptions.
Bad idea…and extremely annoying.
Very poor .
No way to run a comment section.
What a turn off.
Youtube did it and it failed.
Repels those who read comments.
Adds a lot of time and energy to investigating comments. From the point of view of a reader of comments, this is a very laborious system and so i fail to have the energy to approach a comment section when i need to reveal comments with a ‘read more’ button.
The usual scroll function of being able to scroll down the page is vastly more efficient.
Hence, the fail. I barely go to a comment section thus presented….I barely go to youtube comments since this “read more” button was deployed.
I suspect there are others, though not all, like me.
It amounts to a fail from my perspective and so unnecessary.
We all have a scroll button that can take us past and entire comment and even its replies without this “READ MORE” at light speed.
LOL, my previous comment now has a “read more” button ….OK….i have made my point…the ‘read more’ button in my opinion is an epic fail for the adept scroller, however, …….this is just my opinion..
Ah. “Keep my info” didn’t work on a reply, although I will try somewhere else. It DOES work on the top level.
One thing you might want to add is the standard notice that you do not make the email addresses public.
Yep, info keeping is not working on replies. Always fun…
EDIT – editing is apparently working.
Testing to fix ‘NAME’ from kokodda, to kokoda
A-OK (was concerned about not being allowed due to using same email address)