Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
The most awesome comment system ever
Jack Slocum has hacked together the most awesome blog commenting system I have ever seen, using a combination of Wordpress, Yahoo UI and YAHOO.ext. He’s created a system for paragraph- or sentence-level comments with a slick AJAX user interface which could just revolutionise the way we comment. I saw similar functionality on Traction’s Teampage when I got a demo of it last year, and I can imagine that Jack’s approach would be a very powerful way of facilitating quite granular discussions.
At the Open Rights Group we sometimes do public consultations, such as the one we did for the Gowers Review. To gather public input we use a blog and break down the consultation document into sections. This is quite a clumsy way of doing it, and doesn’t really allow for very fine-grained discussions, but Jack’s solution would be far more elegant and would allow us to tease out the nuances of what can be quite complex calls for evidence.
Question is, how do I get one?
(Thanks to Kevin for pointing this out via IM.)
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October 10th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Ben Hammersley sent this along to us at Team Guardian so I’ll give credit where credit is due. But it still is so cool.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:55 am
It’s a nice idea, but maybe more for technical documents or cother collaborative efforts than regular blogging. His commenters sprayed their comments all over the post at random, apparrently… which would confuse me
October 16th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Craig, I think you’re right to some extent. Online collaboration or document markup lend themselves quite well to this type of comments system. But I think some of the ’spraying of comments’ is down to people just having a play.
What do you think of this as an alternative to threading? Or possibly as a supplement to threading?
October 16th, 2006 at 10:40 am
I agree with Kevin that the random comments all over the place were probably due to the fact that people were playing with a new system, not *using* it. But I think that as a comment system it would work on any blog where the writer produces works that have multiple points upon which someone might like to specifically comment. Whether that’s a list of links, (with each link having their own set of comments), or long posts addressing a multiplicity of points.
However, it’s not a one-size-fits-all world, and I certainly think that in some cases, such granularity wouldn’t be needed or desirable. That doesn’t detract from how damn cool this implementation is, though.
October 16th, 2006 at 10:49 am
I agree with Kevin that the random comments all over the place were probably due to the fact that people were playing with a new system, not *using* it. But I think that as a comment system it would work on any blog where the writer produces works that have multiple points upon which someone might like to specifically comment. Whether that’s a list of links, (with each link having their own set of comments), or long posts addressing a multiplicity of points.
However, it’s not a one-size-fits-all world, and I certainly think that in some cases, such granularity wouldn’t be needed or desirable. That doesn’t detract from how damn cool this implementation is, though.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:19 am
Kevin,
What do you think of this as an alternative to threading? Or possibly as a supplement to threading?
I didn’t think of that… it would actually be better than threaded comments, in my opinion. And also I noticed just now that you can view all of the comments in one list, so no harm done either way
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