Comments on: climateaudit.wordpress.com

By: Hu McCulloch

Hu McCulloch — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:47:49 +0000

Looking Gift Horse in Mouth Department:

The threaded comments are a useful feature, but they make it hard to review the latest comments on a long topic.

Would it be possible for the viewer to have the option of sorting the comments either by thread or by time? Or at least to assign comments sequential numbers as in the past?

Steve: Install CA Assistant. It gives chrono threads.

By: Robert Arthur

Robert Arthur — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:04:36 +0000

Yep, the references to code at skimlinks.com are gone. Nice work. It would be interesting to hear how calls to an affiliate marketing system got into the page coding in the first place, but I’m sure you have better things to do.

I’ve never hosted anything at wordpress.com, so I’m guess I am spoiled by the ability to change everything. You are limited to changing CSS, right?

You probably know about these already, but I couldn’t live without two Firefox addons: ColorZilla and Web Developer. The Web Developer addon, in particular, saves you a lot of time when tweaking CSS.

By: fFreddy

fFreddy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:24:00 +0000

No problem – and my thanks again for all your work here.

By: MrPete

MrPete — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:35:23 +0000

If/when we find a way to modify the HTML of the blog, there are lots of things we can do, including
- restore paste link
- sort threads so most recent comments are together (even if threaded!)
- restore helper buttons on the reply box
etc.

But we can’t do any of that yet. ALL your suggestions (and many others) require code changes. We simply cannot do that. Not yet. Stay tuned

By: MrPete

MrPete — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:32:36 +0000

1) The problem should be fixed for everyone
2) We cannot change ANY code on this server. So we cannot host a *.js file on the old server. Sad but true.

There are some other possible workarounds however… we’ve not given up

By: MrPete

MrPete — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:30:24 +0000

Suricat,
Patience is all you need.

We had to take down the old server in rapid fashion, to get CA up and running here.

It’s going to take some time to put the other bits of stuff back together again.

Nobody’s going to delete the data. Where the forum eventually shows up… remains to be seen.

By: suricat

suricat — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:10:27 +0000

Sorry! I thought you wanted a dialogue!

Though, I’m not sure who I’m responding to here.

Best regards, suricat.

By: Daryl M

Daryl M — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:31:44 +0000

Steve,

Congratulations on your new site. It’s an important milestone in the history of CA. The new site is so much faster than the old one. It’s a huge improvement. Thanks to all who made this happen.

I have some minor comments:

Occasionally text seems to overwritten. You can see this by making the browser window narrow.

Threaded mode is great for showing context of posts, but it makes it very hard to keep up on the latest posts. Is there a way to do that other than scrolling through the entire thread?

I miss the aids for formatting posts. Can it be done? If so, how.

By: MrPete

MrPete — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:37:22 +0000

Some more fixes are in place.
* Everyone should be able to see the comment reply box.
* Author comments should all have their special color.
* Text fonts and spacing have been cleaned up a bit.

By: MrPete

MrPete — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:35:47 +0000

Hint: as a temporary workaround, change any link that references data.climateaudit.org to reference the same place at http://www.climateaudit.info