"recent comments" browsing misses interesting stuff

June 15, 2001 5:38 AM

For the past week or so, I've been browsing by "recent comments," which seems to work the best for me. However today I switched to "date" to check out what I've been missing and was surprised to see that there was quite a bit of very interesting links that I had missed.

It seems that the really chatty topics are the ones I've been seeing, but the really interesting links were in the date filter.

Anyway to make the side-bar customizable to add the feed of date or recent comments? Not that it's all that difficult to switch between the two, but it would be nifty to be able to look at both at the same time.
posted by chaz to Feature Requests at 5:38 AM (14 comments total)

You're asking for two things in one, chaz.

So you'd want to see the past number of days you specified, but sorted by recent comment? That way you get both?

If you can ignore all the date headers from a mixed view like that, I could create it for just you, but switching is probably easier.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:17 AM on June 15, 2001

Sorry, what I meant was that the sidebar (sideblog) could be customized to allow a feed of recent comments in truncated form, a la the old haughy.org

that way one could get a quick roundup of the new links while also checking out the recent comments.
posted by chaz at 5:48 PM on June 15, 2001

I thought he wanted one sort order in the main column, and the short-form XML-feed-type version of the other order in the sideblog?

My solution would be this: count the posting of the thread itself as a "response" for sorting purposes. So every time someone starts a new thread, it appears in the "recent comments" sort, even if it has no comments, until it falls off the 20.

(Please note phrase "falling off the 20." Use this phrase, and make me famous by reporting it to JargonScout, credited to me. Thank you. :)
posted by rodii at 5:52 PM on June 15, 2001

Oops, chaz posted his while I was writing mine!
posted by rodii at 5:58 PM on June 15, 2001

My solution would be this: count the posting of the thread itself as a "response" for sorting purposes. So every time someone starts a new thread, it appears in the "recent comments" sort, even if it has no comments, until it falls off the 20.

Yes! Similarly, include links I post in the "my comments" view.
posted by sudama at 10:03 AM on June 16, 2001

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?
posted by rodii at 10:33 AM on June 21, 2001

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?
posted by rodii at 10:33 AM on June 21, 2001

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?
posted by rodii at 10:33 AM on June 21, 2001

WTF??
posted by rodii at 10:33 AM on June 21, 2001

Oops, chaz posted his while I was writing mine!

Off-topic: Can we come up with a term for this phenomenon?
posted by jpoulos at 11:40 AM on June 21, 2001

SimuBlong.
posted by owillis at 11:49 AM on June 21, 2001

Can we come up with a term for this phenomenon?

I like to call it "Being too lazy to Preview" when I do it.
posted by cCranium at 1:05 PM on June 21, 2001

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?

Sudama, you're a one-man groundswell! Hear that, MetaFilter gods!?

rodii, you're a one-man groundswell! ;-j

posted by lagado at 10:50 PM on June 21, 2001

I'm a three-man groundswell.
posted by rodii at 10:06 AM on June 22, 2001