Comments on: Elect

By: a random John

a random John — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:57:23 +0000

Though slightly delayed by both DKL’s scholarly pursuits and his incessant threadjacking version 2.0 of LDSelect has been released. It looks a bit spiffier, but the real innovation is on the comments column.

First you will note that the name of the thread is now present with the comments.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, you will see a “filter” box at the top of the column. Type the name you blog by there (or even just the first few letters) and hit enter. Now only threads that you’ve commented on, and therefore might be particularly interested in, will apear. For those of us that spray our comments about carelessly like pearls before so many virtual swine this feature can say you a lot of needless browsing in search of responses that aren’t there.

Any use of the filter to track where DKL is casting his pearls rather than your own is discouraged but not prohibited.

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:56:06 +0000

“As punishment for MA punishing T&S, DKL (with T&Sâ€™s encouragement) aims to bury the MA and make it obsolete.”

Because, as we all know, DKL is more or less the golden boy here at T&S and nothing is dearer to his heart than we are.

By: Naiah Earhart

Naiah Earhart — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:56:56 +0000

I’m actually using the “checkbox” aspect of the LDSelect site almost like a “checklist as I systematically comb my way through the ‘nacle. No worries on ghettoization. (Is that a word???)

By: clark

clark — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:05:21 +0000

Technically there are three aggregators. It never quite got the press of MA but Planet LDS preceded MA by quite a bit. I used to use it primarily but since it displays all the text in the rss feed that means for far too many posts it displays the full post.

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:40:01 +0000

Well, I have to agree that the Bloggernacle really is a little small for two aggregators. I don’t see much point, even if it is nice.

By: Stephen M (Ethesis)

Stephen M (Ethesis) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:27:09 +0000

My guess is that like any good developer, DKL did it because he could, and building cool toys is fun

When I was young, that was all it took.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:25:37 +0000

Thank you Geoff. some of those smaller islands are hard to see when our heads are way up in the clouds so I didn’t notice :)

By: Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:29 +0000

Geoff,

But those who wish to follow the wider Bnacle are free to do so. In fact, the default is set up that way. Thus, unless one actively _chooses_ to ignore the others, which is a choice that I think people are better off making for themselves based on their available time, the default looks much like MA, with a few bells and whistles, right? Seems like it promotes small blogs to the extent that the individuals who use it _wish_ to promote small blogs.

By: Kaimi Wenger

Kaimi Wenger — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:59:10 +0000

Randy,

Our comments feed is available by RSS to anyone who wants to include it. I presume that Ldselect is getting our comments from there.

By: Geoff J

Geoff J — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:40:19 +0000

Ryan: we have been trying to contact MA for quite some time nowâ€¦ hoping for news on our submission.

I think y’all were added last week actually.