{"id":277,"date":"2007-03-30T23:27:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2007-03-30T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T03:27:15","slug":"wordpress-comment-wishlist-threaded-with-opt-in-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/wordpress-comment-wishlist-threaded-with-opt-in-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Comment Wishlist: Threaded with Opt-In Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div>

Whew! Moving forward with the blog migration, I’m a little preturbed by the commenting options out there. Commenting, to me, is most valuable when it’s a door to two-way dialogue. The standard blog commenting model, however, is a more or less a list of dead-end mutterings. I don’t like it. I want more.<\/p>\n

I was excited about Brian’s Threaded Comments<\/a> plugin, which allows you to reply to specific comments rather than to a linear mess. I assumed that it came equipped with a “notify the person you’re replying to via email” feature (‘cuz really, that was my whole point for caring), but, sadly, I appeared to be wrong. He just provides the option to subscribe to all the comments<\/span> in the post. So, in other words, if you subscribe to my comments, and I respond with a quick “thank you” to the guy who commented before you, you’re going to get that in your inbox. Gee, how useful…<\/p>\n

<\/span>Then there was Dodo’s Threaded Comments with Notification<\/a> hack — which looked very promising indeed, but it lacked two very critical things:<\/p>\n

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  1. The ability to opt-out<\/span> of notifications (absolutely necessary for an ethical website).<\/li>\n
  2. The, um, code files. Thank you, outdated websites, for not maintaining your download links.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Really, what I want is Livejournal’s commenting system mashed up onto a WordPress blog with full customization options. But until I figure out how to do that (or someone magically does it for me… hint hint), I’m going to hold off on nested comments and stick to the opt-in all-post notification system… which isn’t the best solution, but it does foster a dinner-party-style conversation, and I believe that’s better than nothing.<\/p>\n

    And while we’re on the topic of WordPress usability issues, I think it’s worth pointing out that the system’s slick internal spellchecker is convinced<\/span> that the word “blog”<\/span> is a typo.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Heh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Whew! Moving forward with the blog migration, I’m a little preturbed by the commenting options out there. Commenting, to me, is most valuable when it’s a door to two-way dialogue. The standard blog commenting model, however, is a more or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my_projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}