Can we have access to older pages in My Comments?

April 25, 2006 9:25 PM

Could we get a tweak on our 'My Comments' pages to look further back than the current default, on demand? A 'Page 2' link at the bottom for the next X threads back in time, maybe? Or a customizable period (within reason) on our preferences page?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to Feature Requests at 9:25 PM (13 comments total)

Or break 'em out into Blue/Grey/Green/Aqua/whateverelse. Not so much that I want the others, but I'd love to see the past 20-odd AskMe threads in which I've posted that are now a bit longer than last time...
posted by five fresh fish at 9:59 PM on April 25, 2006

FWIW, I'd vastly prefer to keep the sites consolidated on that page, but that's just me, maybe.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:10 PM on April 25, 2006

It's rough, the page can really grind the hell out of the db, so I had to impose some limits.

I have another option I haven't looked into but I might try later this week to save resources on the page, and if it works, I could let you go back into longer time periods.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:53 PM on April 25, 2006

Is it possible to have an alternate format that only shows the title of the FPP and the phrase "57 total comments. 38 since your most recent comment..." with a link to my last comment?

Sometimes I get sick of checking the My Comments page and having to scroll through a screen and a half of comments in run-away threads like the ice cream thread. Though the new '.' tool helps already.
posted by mullacc at 11:03 PM on April 25, 2006

You'll find almost exactly that via your user page, mullacc (wihout comment counts).

The very reason that I find the My Comments page so useful is that it shows me recent comments since my last one in their entirety....
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:22 PM on April 25, 2006

But it isn't sorted by the threads w/ the most recent new comments and it separates the blue/gray/green. Unless I'm missing a preference choice somwhere?
posted by mullacc at 11:43 PM on April 25, 2006

You're right, it doesn't. Brain not work so good today.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:45 PM on April 25, 2006

I'm with you mullacc - I hate the deja vu I get after opening a bunch of threads in tabs, reading through them and encountering the stuff that flashed before my eyes on the My Comments page.

It's fine if there have been less than ten comments since one's own - then you can just keep up with a thread in place - but if there's been a hundred, you get a pointless block of comments from much later in the discussion. Perhaps if more than ten comments have been made, the preview of a thread on My Comments could be replaced with just a link? Or the number of comments made could be added to the listings linked to on user pages, I suppose.
posted by jack_mo at 6:18 AM on April 26, 2006

I really want that "subscribe to threads" feature, so I can unsubscribe to threads I commented in that I don't care about anymore. Like that ice cream one.
posted by smackfu at 6:47 AM on April 26, 2006

I'm with smackfu on that.
posted by klangklangston at 6:51 AM on April 26, 2006

I love My Comments as is.

(But, yeah, I eagerly await "subscribe to threads".)
posted by If I Had An Anus at 6:55 AM on April 26, 2006

Is it possible to have an alternate format that only shows the title of the FPP and the phrase "57 total comments. 38 since your most recent comment..." with a link to my last comment?

mullacc, if you're asking for a link to your last comment just click on the words "since your last comment" to get to your last comment. But if you want all the text collapsed, that is not an option.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:42 AM on April 26, 2006

Yeah, I was asking for the later. Oh well, My Comments is still great thing.
posted by mullacc at 7:49 AM on April 26, 2006