a cute little change (meta)
by at 9:20 AM
Borrowing the technique from the conversatron, the "comments" links now have the comment count embedded into the url, so you can kinda-sorta tell if there's new comments to read based on the link color. (This is mostly for my own benefit, because MT's "recent comments" interface on the admin side sucks, like most of MT's comment engine.
As it's currently implemented, it'll only work if you click on the "comments" link, rather than the "full text" link, and even then it's totally kludgy. Someday I'll probably just learn enough PHP to do it "right" and PHPify this whole thing, but I don't think MT's pseudo-scripting stuff is expressive enough to do it without nasty kludges.
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Why not just have comments emailed to you? That way you don't have to use the interface to check if there's anything new.
Emailed comment notifications are annoying (I really hate how that's the only way to track responses on phpBB as well; why the hell hasn't anyone figured out that it's best to just have a "pending replies" queue? I mean, phpBB maintains that internally anyway, so it knows when to send out new notifications...) and I'm not the only one who actually reads the comments on here, oddly enough.