For a long time the comment system here has been lacking, and while the following changes by no means make it perfect, I believe they will help those actively posting and replying to comments. The first change you will notice is inline replies. Now when you click the "reply" button the reply box opens directly below - this should make it much easier to know what you are replying to.
The second change is opt-in, which basically emails you whenever someone replies to a comment you have posted. To turn this on, edit your userprofile and check the following box:
Other changes I am considering include notification when people post a comment in a profile you control (i.e. if you run a mod and someone comments in there, you will be emailed, same for news posts and media). However I am concerned that would result in too many emails and so have not done it at this point. Also considering adding the ability for Facebook / Twitter users to post comments easily and a way to view your comment history in your user profile.
AWESOME! Been wanting this feature almost since I joined, lol.
Also, I have a suggestion to avoid too many emails on the tracking all comments on a mod page feature you mentioned. If there was a separate "Updates" section at the top of the page near the other updates, and Thread Watch for Comment updates, that'd be pretty cool. You'd probably get a lot of updates if your mod or group was popular, but it beats getting a ton of emails.
this!
THIS! PLEASE!
You still have the "Clear all" Button :)
Frankly that's a nuclear option. You might lose something else in your mail when clearing it, and there are those of us who save e-mails that we find important...
So yeah, I'd say it be better if we could have just a separate update section.
YAY! I talked about this the other day, and now it's here! :D
Awesome! Can I also get a notification via the updates panel?
Wow that was really fast! Thanks!
"notification when people post a comment in a profile you control (i.e. if you run a mod and someone comments in there, you will be emailed, same for news posts and media)"
This would be amazing. If volume of mail is a concern, a daily digest would work great
i like the reply update and course the notification, but since I dont want every second an e-mail that tells me someone posteed on my comment I just keep it off, but thanks for the great update moddb.
This is great since we do not need to find the page where we posted our comment and see the replies of it.
How about instead of E-mail we receive a PM message in our inbox? Wouldn't that be easier?
Yes but won't you get an email when you receive a PM?
Only if you have that option on. I only recently turned it on and it turns out to be quite helpful!
thank goodness for this, but would you not recive lots of emails?
That's a nice update ! Thanks a lot !
Email notification is not required at all. All we need is a notification on ModDB itself in your updates listing about a posted comment. That would really solve a lot of problems.
Right next to your PMs. A little asterisk or something with a number next to it to show your notifications.
Not that I'm being ungrateful... a comment system update is much overdue.
Nice update - will make things easier to follow! ;)
Yahoo! Received a notice, great thanks!
Ah, you guys are awesome. Thanks ModDB!
You should just have this be a part of updates (like mail and mod watch). It would make it easier to keep track of and give people the option to keep their inbox less cluttered.
It's an idea, anyways. I would also be very much in favour of a system that notified me when a comment is placed on my mod, be they comments on the mod's home page or on a specific item (news, screens, videos, etc.). It would stop me from having to manually look at each part of my mod, which gives those pieces artificial views as well.
Fantastic! I've really wanted a feature like this, especially for when I am asking someone a question about something. It was a bit annoying to have to keep checking back on the post, although I suppose I could have PM'd them instead.
Jolly good!
Comment history would be nice too, I've made plenty of comments and I've lost track of them all and would be really curious to see the replies to them.
I'm commenting just to test it
Am I doing it right?
EDIT: No I am not.
you don't get notified when replying to your own comment
Guys, have you looked at how Github handles commenting and notifications? That's a pretty sane interface, and it works pretty well.
SWEET!!
Awesome! Just in time!
I was going to put a new game tonight! :D
My suggestion, which may already have been made by others:
(rather than email...)
-Create a comment 'thread' watch feature, similar to the forum thread watch feature.
-Allow users to watch comment (and forum) threads that others have made.
-Allow users to watch all comments posted under specific content of a mod/game (image, video, news post, summary section, all images/video/news, etc)
-Create a system to facilitate quick 'stop watching' of multiple threads, including categorization by mod/game and media type (image, video, etc.)
-Effectively I'm asking to make the comment watch feature an expansion of the game/mod/group/member watch feature, and also add more control over exactly what a user can select to watch (and unwatch).
nice :) And for the fbook feature you mentioned, please make that optional - not all of us likes/approves fbook
Nice been waiting for this feature!! Will help devs to see all the feedback and is very helpful!
Thank you.
Oops, forgot to say thank you!!!
This is a great update, thanks a million.
Nice tweaks and improvements to the comment system, thanks for the hard work.
I would love to get notifications if there's a new comment on my articles. Where do I activate this option?
So that's how people know when I reply to their comments! I thought it'd show in the message box but I guess it's email only. I don't usually check my email so I had no idea lmao. :P