principia
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I think this thread highlights most people don't really want Comments in Posts as a prominent feature.
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I think this thread highlights most people don't really want Comments in Posts as a prominent feature.
so we have 60 some paged vB5 bash thread, with screen shots saying about how they're copying XF software or whatever.. ironically, now posting screens of their stuff for "ideas" to use in XF.. lmfao. Just razzing bro... But like some others said though, comments in posts would be clutter and confusing I think. XF isn't social network script... and I thought people were unhappy with IB for trying to intergrate twitter, facebook, and other social scripts into its "forum software".. now it's like people are changing stories by wanting it in XF.. >_> Comments or whatever is better left in media gallery/user albums and etc. If commenting on posts were there, wouldn't that require one or two more database queries to load page too...? lol.
I doubt xf will ever take comments in posts and implement them, xf is better than this, xf does not entice confusion, clutter and somewhat taking 1 step forward and 10 steps backwards. The comments in posts is just a gimmick to be different but when applied to the web (specifically for forums) it's just not practical. Not only does it fail, it fails miserably to the point it makes you cringe and want to cower in the corner from the potential fragmentation/clutter/confusion comments within posts would pose.
Comments in Posts have been around for a long time....now posting screens of their stuff for "ideas" to use in XF.
Cool.We've discussed this before.
RvG brought it up :
I see that vBulletin 5 has this feature.
vBulletin has always had a mod that does this: Reputation comment in post - karma for 3.5.
Here is an example of vBulletin 5 comments in posts.
I think a major benefit of comments on ("in") posts is that if people just want to comment on a small aspect of a post ... they can just add their 2 cents without junking up the thread with "Great Job", etc.
To me, comments in Posts will allow people to comment, without sprawling a thread over more and more pages.
That's from the vB5 demo ... check out the URL in my post. I resized the window.Is that custom styling of the scanlines or default for those quotes?
That's from the vB5 demo ... check out the URL in my post. I resized the window.
Almost the entire reason for having "Comments in Posts" is to reduce fragmentation.
You comment on a post .. in the post .. so you don't clutter up the entire thread.
I think it could make threads more readable.
And I think it could help reduce thread sprawl (where a thread gets too long with short useless replies).
Time will tell if this feature for vBulletin is a success or not. It is a VERY prominent feature of vBulletin 5.
You know, at first I was skeptical about commenting in posts as well. I found it useless. I mean, why commenting if you can reply as well? Then, we went live with our forums and started actively using it every day. We managed to work out a great way of commenting where I started to love this feature. For instance, a topic where you post screenshots. Instead of going severely offtopic. you comment on this specific post with the screenshot while the page remains clean with images, instead of offtopic posts all the time.
I guess my explanation is abit off here, but hey you get the point.
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