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September 25, 2004
We don't have permalinks to individual comments anymore?: Did I miss something? I'm on Win Firefox 0.9. Whaddup? I was going to link to my brilliant team selection and analysis for Liverpool, but alas, it was not to be.
posted by worldcup2002 to bugs at 03:10 PM - 24 comments
OK, that one's always been a problem on Netscape, Mozilla, etc. But I've always been able to link to ... waitaminute, I can link to your individual comment. right there. But I couldn't do it from SpoFi posts just now. Maybe it was a hallucination.
posted by worldcup2002 at 03:53 PM on September 25, 2004
Nope. Looks like it works fine right here in the Locker Room, but not from the SpoFi Main page posts. The mystery deepens ...
posted by worldcup2002 at 03:55 PM on September 25, 2004
PLease, someone else check it out, and tell me if you're experiencing the same problem.
posted by worldcup2002 at 03:56 PM on September 25, 2004
Link to my first comment in this thread
posted by billsaysthis at 05:06 PM on September 25, 2004
Okay, I see you mean the comments on the main page threads. I can't see any permalinks there either, maybe someone messed up the template...
posted by billsaysthis at 05:07 PM on September 25, 2004
You're right wc2002. I'm sure it will be fixed shortly.
posted by justgary at 05:48 PM on September 25, 2004
Whew. I can tell my psychiatrist to take the rest of the weekend off, then.
posted by worldcup2002 at 09:28 PM on September 25, 2004
Wait a sec-- the link is on the little icon waaay over on the left in the main site, right? I'm on Firefox 1.0 now, but it was there in 0.9 as well. Fr'instance.
posted by yerfatma at 11:40 AM on September 26, 2004
Oh yeah. Just shows you how smart some people are. Right, yerfatma?
posted by billsaysthis at 11:53 AM on September 26, 2004
Argh - this is why we should be consistent across the board. Why do it one way on the Main Page and a different way here? What benefit does this difference give us? I think it's just confusing. But thanks for pointing it out, yerfatma. I'd forgotten about it. But still, it's confusing, unnecessarily so.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:23 PM on September 26, 2004
And btw, even justgary, one of the Pantheon, didn't realize it himself. I say the old way (make the time of the comment a link, like it's done right here in the Locker Room) is still the better way. If we still want to use the pretty speech balloon icon, make sure to do it both on the Main page and in the Locker Room, AND also make the time of the comment a link in both places.
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:28 PM on September 26, 2004
And a pony too, WC?
posted by billsaysthis at 06:22 PM on September 26, 2004
Oh, two ponies, please!
posted by worldcup2002 at 06:30 PM on September 26, 2004
this seems like old news. i commented on this back in June and put myself in the "like the bubbles but adopt a consistent policy" camp. but i say onward with the bubble link and don't use the (redundant) time link provided the various browsers don't have a problem using the bubble thing as a link. IMHO it looks sleeker. but maybe the option to have both is something that could be set in the user preferences? Even more coding work to do? HA!
posted by gspm at 07:14 PM on September 26, 2004
Believe it or not, we're still on our way to switching to a new server and completely new engine, in our own, slow, special way. So things like this might be put on the back burner until the switch is complete. Once the switch is made, things should be much better when it comes to fixing bugs and creating features. Don't hold me to it though...
posted by justgary at 11:02 PM on September 26, 2004
The Locker Room main page and comments page should now look and act the same as their main page counterparts. We definitely want to be consistent, but as justgary mentioned it's taking longer than expected to move to the new server. Since a lot of things are going to be coded differently on the new server, we don't want to spend too much time making changes now and redoing them later.
posted by kirkaracha at 02:28 PM on September 27, 2004
Acknowledged. Carry on.
posted by worldcup2002 at 04:48 PM on September 27, 2004
Individual comment link buttons within the locker room pages do not point to the correct thread. For example, clicking on the speech balloon at the bottom of my comment will take you to the thread of "Buffalo News columnist Greg Connors asks: Why are there so few good sports weblogs?"
posted by smithers at 08:54 AM on October 15, 2004
smithers- that's because the link is missing the directory "lockerroom" between sportsfilter.com and comments.cfm. so whoever fixes things should add that to the url and it'd work again.
posted by blarp at 01:34 PM on October 15, 2004
After having more time to consider this, I think we should go back to making the time (1:34PM PST) a link again. I mean, everything on this site that is a link is what? Blue underlined text. Except for the comments, which use speech balloon icons, exclusively. Even the main posts, which use page icons, still utilize the "3 comments" text as a link. This is redundant but good, because the posts are the most important things to point to on this site (aside from the main article links, of course). The next most important thing to link to is the individual comment, which for some arbitrary reason, is the only thing that doesn't have a blue underlined text link. I say, use the speech balloon, fine, but also back it up by making those timestamps into links again.
posted by worldcup2002 at 02:00 PM on October 15, 2004
(For what it's worth, I had never noticed the speech balloon until it was mentioned here.) I agree with wc2k2.
posted by blarp at 02:31 PM on October 15, 2004
What the hell is this speech balloon and what it is for?
posted by StarFucker at 03:35 PM on October 15, 2004
Didn't you read the TPS report?
posted by worldcup2002 at 06:46 PM on October 15, 2004
Since I switched to Firefox the keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+SH+A, CTRL+SH+T, fopr instance) no longer work for me.