So using OmniMents I have found that the most annoying thing is, I have no idea when someone adds a comment to a page or replies to a comment that I left. My only option is to keep refreshing the page every few minutes to see if anyone has added something. (Actually I can look at the datastore to see if anyone has added something, but you can't and its ordered weird.) So I decided to do two things to help with this.First I added an rss feed that will update with the newest comments. The rss link will take you to the page that the comment is on. This will help you keep track of new comments and easily let you reply to any comments you see in your feed. You can add the rss feed by going here: http://omniments.appspot.com/rss/ or you can click on the rss button that shows up in the Firefox address bar when you are at any of the OmniMents pages. I think the rss feed will become overly huge and annoying once more people start using it, so this is just a temporary fix. I will add one that will allow you to filter what you want sent to you soon.
Second I threw together a quick home page at: http://omniments.appspot.com/ The homepage shows you the last 10 comments and then links to the comment's page so that you can view the thread and add your own comments.
I have also tweaked the script, but nothing significant so I will just wait until I have time to throw it into a Firefox extension before I update it.
So I think next up is creating the Firefox extension and then adding styles and ajaxifying the comments and home pages.
Let me know how everything works for you guys and if you have any ideas for usability improvement.
Thnaks!
2 comments:
Is the feed for the latest comments backwards? I added it to Reader, but it shows the first comment at the top instead of the bottom.
They seem to be working fine for me, with the newest comments first. I originally had it switched, but I fixed it before posting. Is anyone else having this problem?
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