Recent Comments Page - Sort by Location

[lollobrigida]

Title:
Recent Comments Page - Sort by Location

Area:
Tools - Recent Comments

Summary:
To have the ability to sort your recent comments section by location, instead of the default of by time. This way, if you have multiple comments to one post, you can easily see which ones have been replied to within one post.

Description:
My suggestion is mainly for ease of keeping track of comments that are posted outside of your own journal. The recent_comments section has Latest Posted and Premium members can view up to 150 of those comments. It's an amazing tool that has helped a lot of RPers keep track of things when notifs are down or when we are unable to access our email.

In the Roleplaying community this page has been a Godsend when we lose a notification due to accidental deletion or something being marked spam.

The only drawback to it, right now, is that because it is by default sorted by the time that you posted a comment. This means when you are dealing with multiple threads, you might have to dig through an entire list of 150 comments to make sure that you have found all of the replied to comments in one post.

Being able to sort these comments by location means that they are all grouped by location, then by time, and it will be easier to spot which ones need to be replied to. Now, I don't know very much about the back-end of this tool. I know that it was a feature that was on Livejournal and that it operated very much the same way on LJ that it does on DW. There are already improvements on DW from the LJ version, because we can easily see which have been replied to, we also have a link to delete the comment or edit it. I love these things and I just want a bit more organization to the section.

Another option that would be amazing would be if it could be sorted by actual tagging thread. There are instances, again with multiple threads occur within a single post, and being able to sort them into their individual threads would be a great thing to utilize when dealing with replying to each thread.

Currently they are sorted by time. If you made the top bar where each section is labeled "Time", "Location", "Delete", and "Edit" actually clickable for sorting that would be ideal. Being able to sort by Location of Post or Subthread with a click of a link would be amazing.

Poll #10447 Recent Comments Page - Sort by Location

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Should be implemented as-is.
31 (54.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
26 (45.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[green_knight]

'location' threw me for a moment - but this sounds like one of the small simple things that would improve the user experience for many and I cannot see any drawbacks.

[lollobrigida]

I only used location, because that's what the column is labeled as currently within the tool.

I just know that my email has deleted replies before as Spam and when that happens I have to use the comment tool and sometimes it's just really frustrating to have a list of 150 comments and not be sure which one it is that got lost in the mix.