Fixed [LWN.net]

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:14 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: A report from the (not only) MySQL conference 2011 by onlooker_905
Parent article: A report from the (not only) MySQL conference 2011

...and the comment posting screen still asks for typo reports to be emailed to us rather than posted here...:)

to post comments

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:26 UTC (Wed) by cmorgan (guest, #71980) [Link] (6 responses)

Hi Jonathan.

Not sure if you'll spot this but I can't help but wish lwn had a way to follow and be notified of comments in comment threads. Sometimes a good discussion gets going but you have to manually go back and look to see if you missed a response.

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:32 UTC (Wed) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

I'm not Jonathan (nor do I play one on TV :) but there are a couple of things that may help here:

Subscribers can see the "Unread comments" on all articles by following that link on left hand side of the page.

Top-level subscribers can request email for all comments on a specific article.

Also, unread comments in a comment thread are now highlighted in a different color.

Do any of those help?

jake

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:35 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (guest, #23346) [Link] (1 responses)

Time to upgrade your subscription, higher levels do that:

The professional hacker level, which is the standard subscription level for LWN.net. US$7.00 per month, or US$84 (pre-discount) per year. In addition to access to subscriber-only content, subscribers at this level have access to a number of additional site features, including the ability to turn off advertisements, filter comments based on author, or receive comment notifications via email.

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:36 UTC (Wed) by cmorgan (guest, #71980) [Link]

Responding to both jake and dberkholz here (figured my first message was off topic enough)

Thank you for those suggestions. I wasn't aware that that support was available. Maybe I'll upgrade my account to get that feature...

Notifications

Posted Apr 20, 2011 15:36 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

Subscribers at the project leader level can request notifications for comments on any article; that sounds like the feature you want? They also get an improved article view which highlights comments posted since the last time they looked.

Notifications

Posted Apr 21, 2011 15:27 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link] (1 responses)

Which is an awesome (fairly) new feature, thank you!!!

Notifications

Posted Apr 24, 2011 15:12 UTC (Sun) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link]

Indeed, at first I was like "what the heck just happened, LWN looks old-school normally, but now it is also GRAY!"

But for all of you cheap normal-level subscribers: This feature alone is worth an upgrade! :P

Fixed

Posted Apr 20, 2011 21:30 UTC (Wed) by nicooo (guest, #69134) [Link]

What about a check box somewhere for sending typo reports from the comment page?