Idea for comment pages: Where did I leave off?
A good idea for a "comments" interface ...
"Here’s an idea to improve the experience of reading comments.
First the problem. Comments usually trickle in one-by-one. To read the latest, you jump to the bottom. For hot topics, it’s different. Every time you come back, there may be another five or ten comments, and finding where you left off requires careful scanning and scrolling. I often think to myself “Just show me where I left off!”.
Here’s a solution. When someone revisits the comment stream, display a clear separator that says “The comments below this line are new to you.” You could do this by setting a cookie when someone visits the permalink page with the ID of the last comment. On subsequent visits, compare the cookie with the current number of comments, and insert the separator accordingly. Throw in an anchor on top (“Take me to where I left off”) and you’re done. I imagine this wouldn’t be so hard now that Javascript is less painful." continued ... (Via Signal vs. Noise)
"Here’s an idea to improve the experience of reading comments.
First the problem. Comments usually trickle in one-by-one. To read the latest, you jump to the bottom. For hot topics, it’s different. Every time you come back, there may be another five or ten comments, and finding where you left off requires careful scanning and scrolling. I often think to myself “Just show me where I left off!”.
Here’s a solution. When someone revisits the comment stream, display a clear separator that says “The comments below this line are new to you.” You could do this by setting a cookie when someone visits the permalink page with the ID of the last comment. On subsequent visits, compare the cookie with the current number of comments, and insert the separator accordingly. Throw in an anchor on top (“Take me to where I left off”) and you’re done. I imagine this wouldn’t be so hard now that Javascript is less painful." continued ... (Via Signal vs. Noise)
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