If there are – like a couple have said that certain eamil addys don’t get recognised – please put them in the comments to this post. Then we’ll have them all in one place for the code monkey to have a look at.
If there are – like a couple have said that certain eamil addys don’t get recognised – please put them in the comments to this post. Then we’ll have them all in one place for the code monkey to have a look at.
I prefer your censorship option of simply forbidding comments on some posts to the censorship at, for instance, Marginal Revolution, where those soi-disant libertarians quietly suppress any comment they take sufficient objection to, using God Knows What rules.
I did mention elsewhere that I had that problem. I have since discovered if I turn off my VPN before I press post, I am recognised.
I was thinking of comments that actually appeared on-screen only later to be vanished.
Complaint: there’s no place complement you on your new, improved blog.
Thx.
Edit: people have been asking for edit function for 18 years!!!
Too many intrusive ads on Android, at least. They circumvent my Samsung adblocker and make using the site on my mobile very difficult.
Otherwise, great to be able to upload images, and nested comments are good, too.
9/10. Well done, code monkey.
Switch to Brave browser and the ads go away…. At least on iPhone
I have 3 browsers as it is…And I don’t like over-priced crApple…
I don’t give a f*** what you like. I was just trying to help. Brave is on Linux as well so should be okay on Android. YMMV
Thanks for trying to help. My dislike of crApple is no criticism of your preference.
I use Firefox on Android, with Ghostery, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger installed. That may be overkill but it kills ads on most sites, including this one.
Another uptick for u-block Origin (Firefox & W7), I rarely if ever see ads. Brave does the same.
I don’t object to the presence of adverts – you need to raise funds – but on my Android GL4 they break up the display, I often get comments squeezed into narrow columns between an advert and the side of the screen, meaning I don’t notice the content as I scroll past the advert.
A pahsitive suggestion: on many blogs you see a comment and then, perhaps weeks later, you come across something relevant to it. There seems little point searching for the old comment so you just let the matter drop.
Now, is it possible to run an occasional comment thread as a repository for suitable “L’esprit d’escalier” links?
F’rinstance: recently someone commented on the lengths one must go to to ensure that vaccine manufacture doesn’t result in product “lots” that are seriously contaminated. And then today I came across a relevant substack article:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-century-of-forgotten-vaccine
Maybe the fact that other blogs don’t do this suggests it wouldn’t work. But if you always took that attitude you’d never make any advances at all. (I treasure an argument that one of my research students came up with to reject an invention of mine. “It won’t work.” “How do you know?” “Because if it worked it would have been invented already.”
Thing is the low-tech nature of this blog enables both anonymity and plausible deniability of non-anonymity. Further the limited search function greatly frustrates offence archaeology and likely wrongthink archaeology by future regimes (including the biographical reconstruction a dedicated enforcer of doubleplusrightthink would likely indulge in) that are substantially less liberal than the one we are currently belabouring (or being belaboured) under.
I had an email problem but it turned out not to be a problem with this site as it also got rejected when I signed the no to DID petition.
You were one of the reasons for this post….
Is the method to easily spot new comments on a refresh (or however it is done) working? I can’t see anything different at all. Which means – because of nested replies to comments, rather than everything sequential – one has to scan down on a refresh looking at approximate more recent time stamps. Alternatively, just look in at the end of the day. I don’t use feed notification (?) or anything like that.
No problems at this end so far. I’m doing this post as a test on Firefox 53/Windows XP as an ultimate stress test, and it seems to be fine.
Edit: And the Edit link works, though it’s a bit fussy over exactly how I point to the Edit button. 😉 test…. I have to click on the (cog) and then move the pointer fast enough to hover where the Edit link will appear *before* *it* *appears* otherwise the Edit button vanishes.
As I noted a few days ago, the email address I had been using for comments for years is now “not recognised”. Luckily I have several others to choose from which work.
It would be nice if the font colour in the comment input box wasn’t light grey…
Bit hard to see on a white background….
The only thing really is that it is fine on a Windows PC ( not tried it on Linux yet, must admit ) but sometimems a bit cranky on my Android tablet. Nothing major, sometimes the User’s name and Address doesn’t appear when commenting ( fixed by clicking on the Attachment icon ). The focus is a bit troublesome and sometimes boxes will not react when clicked upon. Buit I think this is more Android than anything else. The Edit function is super.
It’s mostly a great improvement, but the comment link on each comment a Javascript that copies the link to the clipboard, which is bad. If I want to copy a normal link to the clipboard, I right-click on it and choose “Copy link”, so the Javascript adds almost nothing, but prevents all the normal uses of a link (bookmarking it, open in new tab, open in new window, etc).
There’s also a popup asking for donations. There is nothing more likely to put me off making a donation than intrusive begging. Just put plain text on the page (the Tip Jar) which has a link to a page explaining how to donate, preferably anonymously. I suspect most people will instantly dismiss a popup, and if you haven’t had any comments on the text it includes, it shows people don’t read it.