June 30, 2009

New Comment Count When?: When will the new comments since last visit return?

posted by scully to feature requests at 09:48 PM - 20 comments

Seconded.

(Meaning I agree with the feature request, because obviously you can't second a question.)

posted by owlhouse at 11:08 PM on June 30, 2009

Me three.

posted by BoKnows at 12:29 AM on July 01, 2009

I find SpoFi to be a glorified RSS aggregator without the new comment count. I can't participate if I don't know where I left off last because there is (as The Police said) "too much information running through my brain".

posted by scully at 08:43 AM on July 01, 2009

I really miss that feature as well.

posted by NoMich at 10:04 AM on July 01, 2009

I've got an idea for how to implement it without hitting the database more than once per page. I will start poking around this afternoon to see if it works. Let me know if anything weird happens on the site as you use it today.

posted by rcade at 01:03 PM on July 01, 2009

Give it a try. As currently implemented, when you're done catching up on the site and posting comments, log out. The next time you log in, you should see new comment counts.

posted by rcade at 08:29 PM on July 01, 2009

I'm not sure what happens when you don't explicitly log out and return to the site later. I will test that myself.

posted by rcade at 08:34 PM on July 01, 2009

Hey, new comments are indicated ! Woo hoo !

posted by tommybiden at 09:51 PM on July 01, 2009

Yeah!

posted by BoKnows at 11:26 PM on July 01, 2009

Thanks rcade!

posted by owlhouse at 12:58 AM on July 02, 2009

w00t! I love it.

posted by jmd82 at 09:32 AM on July 02, 2009

Thanks, rcade.

*stops squeaking* (for now)

posted by scully at 11:45 AM on July 02, 2009

Thanks for the nudge. It took me a bunch of tries to come up with a way to do this that doesn't hit the database one time for each front-page post.

posted by rcade at 02:33 PM on July 02, 2009

rcade, you genius, you've done it again. Thanks for allowing me to remove all the sticky notes with comment counts from my monitor. Now I can actually see the screen and read the posts.

posted by Howard_T at 05:26 PM on July 02, 2009

I love it. Thanks rcade

posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:33 PM on July 02, 2009

Hooray for rcade!

posted by NoMich at 10:11 PM on July 02, 2009

Works nicely in Chrome rcade - thanks!

posted by Mr Bismarck at 10:13 AM on July 03, 2009

Snazzy!

posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:06 AM on July 03, 2009

Any chance of getting a x link(s) and y comment(s) posted since your last visit type of notice on the front page? Like what they have over at Metafilter. Pretty please?

posted by NoMich at 10:29 PM on July 05, 2009

*sigh*

posted by NoMich at 10:20 PM on July 26, 2009

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