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    • CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    I think the n-Forum has turned into something amazing. I admit I was a bit skeptical in the beginning, but especially with the recent itex + “Source” features, it is a top notch forum. Very cool.

    I have an item I’d put on a wish list though.

    Some of us (I noticed David has suffered from this too) type slowly and when a discussion is moving, several comment can appear before we actually post one of our responses. It would be GREAT if when we “Preview” our own post that we can see an update of all subsequent comments.

    Currently, when we Preview, we see the state of the comments as it was when you first started responding. But by the time you are done, there could be 3-4 new posts that render your comment moot or possibly in need of modification.

    Would it be possible to have the list of comments updated when you preview your post?

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorHarry Gindi
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    I don't understand why you would be skeptical of the nForum. It's so much more convenient than dropping comment boxes on the wiki, which is at best aggravating.

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    • CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    Harry. I can say with some certainty (although I can also assume with certainty you will disagree now because that is what you like to do :)) that if you were a part of the n-community before the n-forum existed and someone had proposed an n-forum, you, of all people, would have complained the loudest :)

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    • CommentAuthorHarry Gindi
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    I think that we should have an nLab IRC channel.

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    • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    Apparently, we already have a rudimentary version of this functionality! It’s just that I (and probably no-one else) realised it.

    When you go to your account page and click on ’Forum preferences’ then there are three checkboxes. The third has the heading ’Thread Options’ and reads ’Notify me when new comments are submitted’. I always read that as meaning that it would send me an email whenever anyone posted a comment, so I never checked that box. Now I realise that this is not the “notification” plugin (which is the one that sends emails) but the “new post notification” plugin which does, sort of, what you want.

    I’ve just enabled it for myself to test it - now I have to go and pick a popular discussion and wait for someone to post there. As I haven’t tested it, I can’t guarantee yet that it produces valid XHTML.

    Also, it’s probably not fully what you want in that I don’t think that it displays the updated thread, just tells you that new stuff has been added. So maybe it’ll need a bit of tweaking to get it to the functionality that you want. However, it’s a start!

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    • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    Okay, it did need a little fixing wrt ampersands, but now it seems to work okay. Unfortunately, if you click on the ’X New Comment(s)’ button then you lose whatever you’ve been writing in the comment box. So it should be updated to copy over whatever you’ve already written, I guess. The other desirable feature that I can think of is that the preview plugin reloads the whole page if there are new comments.

    Those will take a little hackery, though.

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    • CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010

    The other desirable feature that I can think of is that the preview plugin reloads the whole page if there are new comments.

    Yeah. That is the functionality I had in mind. If it just reloaded the page, it would be perfect.