About a month and a half ago, Joe posted the "The Key Play's 2014 Metrics, 2015 State of TKP and TELL-a-thon 2.0". There was a lot of really good discussion and feedback generated in the comments of this post. Plus, I'm sure that the surveys that were submitted added another great source of information.
1. Is there a plan on releasing a summary of the feedback from those surveys/comments?
2. Is there a way to create a TKP wishlist that people with appropriate talents could volunteer to tackle individual improvements to the site or community (fundraising, promotion, etc.)?
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both great ideas +1
I volunteer for quality assurance of all bourbon served at TKP tailgates.
The TKP/VT version of a sommelier? I'd drink to that!
1. Yes. That's going to happen. TKP's birthday is March 14, so expect a post then. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I've been deploying new features here and there based on the feedback I got.
2. I have open ears for marketing / fundraising advice and support. I really want to be able to support TKP hiring its own full-time beat writer (for lack of a better word), and I need to convey that message better. If TKP hit $3500 - $4000 / month in recurring donations (350 - 400 people at $10 / month) I would have someone full-time for this fall. The cool thing is this person would essentially work for you, the reader and the community.
I thought maybe I had just missed a meta post on some of those features. The ones I noticed were the new comment navigation shortcuts to the top comments and then the carat that brings you up to the comment above the current one for following replies.
Along the lines of a TKP beat writer, what would it take to afford to hire Andy Bitter away from his current gig?
In dollars or Hardee's coupons?
To hire him away and provide benefits I would think 70,000-100,000 all in.
There wasn't a meta post, I'm waiting until more features go live. Hardcore users probably started to notice them already. Also, I just deployed an update version of the search, it's no longer junk.
What about sorting of results by date/most recent? I noticed there are more recent results, but older ones are still mixed in.
As far as sorting the comments in a thread, I mentioned this before, but what you are asking for is a feature of TKP 3.0. It's something to implement when I rewrite my own CMS from scratch. It's a fundamental change to how the guts of the current commenting system works.
Nice. So, things I'm waiting for:
Drew Harris!
Trey to LB!
TKP3.0!
Are we there yet?
Slow down big horse.
I was referring to sorting of search results.
Also, on Windows 8.1 with IE 11, the toggle switches are there (I can click) but I can't see them. This is probably the way my preferences are set up, but I haven't really messed around with them, so I'm thinking it would be a default setting.
Edit: it isn't happening on my other computer, so problem on my end I think. Any body know what I need to change to fix it?
The search results are ordered by rank with the most relevant ones listed first. A sort option doesn't make much sense there and won't happen. Although, I have something else in mind to address your issue.
The toggle switches are a custom font that was recently updated. My guess is your mobile browser has it cached. Clear the browser cache on that device or track down how to do a "hard refresh".
Thanks, it's working now.
I added a filter for post titles in the tracker, that should help fill some of the feature gap you described.
Joe put is some magic that you have to do first:
It worked when I did but have no idea how.
Awesome! I look forward to seeing the feedback.
Is there room for volunteer efforts to add functionality to the website? It could be a way to take some of the load off of your shoulders. I'm sure that there are plenty of qualified people who could help in this way.
Thanks for the updates. I just signed up to make a monthly recurring donation.
I pushed some more code live tonight. The last button in a comment's header is a toggle switch. (You may need to hold down shift while clicking refresh for them to appear.) If you click the switch it will dim all the other comments except for the current comment and all of its ancestors. You can flick any switch in that "family" to turn all the comments back on, or click a dimmed switch to highlight a new family.
Folks have been asking for a better way to visualize / find parent comments, and this is what I came up with. I didn't want lines all over the page, and I think it works well. If you're in a long thread with a lot of branching comments, you can flick a switch, then scroll up to see all the relevant replies.
Dude, that is slick.
I read Joe's post, said exactly your words out load to no one, then scrolled down to your post. This site freaks me out a little......
AND THERE'S A LITTLE ^ BUTTON THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO THE PARENT POST? AMAZING
The dim doesn't appear to be working properly on mobile. Using an android tablet and when I clicked the button on your comment it dimmed everything but your comment. Just a heads up, very cool concept, though.... Glad to see the continual improvement to the site.
That's exactly as it should work. When you click on a comment for the first time it dims everything BUT the current comment and its ancestors.
Clicking a top level comment really doesn't provide much functionality. In fact, in the first version I didn't include the switch on the top level comment. I put them in because when I was testing I would scroll to the top of a long family of comments and then have no way to restore the rest of the comments in the thread.
A better way to think about it is the switch highlights the current family of comments by dimming all other comments.
Oh tits... I mixed up ancestors and descendants. You're completely right, it works properly, and I just tested on the tablet and it works there, too.
These new comment features are awesome!
Glad you like them. The goals of TKP have always been to provide the best content on the best software platform.
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To coin a phrase, you are the tits. And they apparently can do this
This might not be the correct place to complain but I keep getting
random ads with sound. I do not mind the ads one bit but it is annoying at
work when random ad sounds are coming from my computer.
Is there a way to fix this? Or maybe to mute them?
Have you tried looking at some Emma Watson gifs :)
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well done sir
I haven't forgotten about this. I planned to publish something near TKP's birthday on Saturday, but have been busy adding new features folks requested in the survey.
With that said, collapsable comments are live now. Click the ∨ in the comment header to collapse a thread, then > to expand it. If you don't see the ∨, hold shift and refresh the page.
Threads you collapse will remembered on a per device basis. I am using cookies to store the data, and more often than not those won't sync between devices. So in most circumstances if you collapse a thread on your laptop, and view it on your iPhone, it won't be collapsed. If you collapse a comment, all the comments threaded underneath will be collapsed too, the same thing happens when you expand. This should be a quick and easy way to ignore a section of a comment thread, or make a longer thread more manageable to navigate.
Also, when you use t / T, n / N to keyboard navigate through a thread, it will jump to the proper spot and not cut off the top of the comment.
Joe I don't know if you can hear this enough, but Yall do an amazing job on this site. I hope you got the check I sent and more will be coming in the future.
I did. I sent a thank you email when I got it to the email associated with your TKP account. Maybe it got ate in the pipes. In any event, thank you!
I just tried it and I just have to say
collapsible comments?
This is awesome! Thank you!
Happy Birthday to TKP!! Hope my donation helps (finally!!) Thanks for
all you guys do to make this such an awesome website. :)
collapsible comments?
Chuck - what a great show.
Really love the new site updates!
Awesome job with the updates, Joe!
