Split up recent comments page to allow more comments

[cesy]

Title:
Split up recent comments page to allow more comments

Area:
comments

Summary:
Split the recent comments page into separate pages for comments received and comments posted.

Description:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/recent_comments has a section for comments received and a section for comments posted. It has handy links to skip from one to the other. It defaults to 25 comments, and allows you to show up to 150 comments of either type.

However, if you pick 150 comments, you get both 150 comments received and 150 comments posted. This is a big page to load when you only wanted one or the other, so bad for dial-up, mobiles and the poor servers.

I'd suggest splitting this into two pages that you can toggle between, since most people will use the links rather than scrolling down 25 comments anyway. This will make the page faster to load, only give you the information you actually want, and open the door to the possibility of increasing the limit of 150.

Poll #4290 Split up recent comments page to allow more comments

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Should be implemented as-is.
27 (77.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (20.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[charamei]

I didn't even know that page existed! That's awesome.

[denise]

Yup -- it's linked under the Read menu in the CORES menu that's standard across the different site schemes. You might want to check out some of the other things in there, too, and also the Site Map, which links a bunch of other things that people don't always know about!

(The Recent Comments page was inherited from LJ when we forked, but we did a lot to make it more usable.)

[kyrielle]

I am so tired of having to click/scroll down. I reflexively scroll and on that page it's an error of epic proportions. :P I would love this!

[cheyinka]

Maybe only if you're displaying a certain number of comments? If you're only looking at the ten most recent, two pages seems like overkill; I could see the most-recent-twenty-five going either way; but fifty, a hundred, or a hundred fifty would definitely be more useful (to me, anyway) as two pages.

[cesy]

Yeah, I could see that being even better from a usability point of view, but my gut reaction was that it wouldn't be worth the extra coding effort - this is simpler, and works fine. It's an extra click in a fairly rare case.

[cheyinka]

Well, recent comments always comes up at 25 for me, and I personally would prefer not having that extra click, so depending on how difficult it is to code, it might be worth it for more than just me :D

[triadruid]

I always want one kind OR the other, so this seems sensible to me.