Hey everyone,
As you can tell from this post’s title, I’ve switched to a new commenting system for the blog, and I’m hopeful that this will make conversations on the blog a lot more fun to navigate!
Also, this feels timely, since a number of you let me know that the edit button for comments has stopped appearing for you. Not to worry, my friends! This new commenting system has a built-in editing feature, so you’ll be able to edit your comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them, just like the previous one.
The new commenting system is fairly easy to navigate instinctively, but I thought I’d highlight a couple of things, just to make it even easier for everyone.
How to edit your comment
Once you post your comment, you will be able to see a “settings” sort of wheel at the bottom right corner of your comment, when you mouse over it. If you don’t mouse over it, you won’t see it. When you see it upon mousing over it, just click on it, and the “Edit” option will appear.
The default setting for the editing duration is 15 minutes, just like our previous editing feature. 😊
How to add a spoiler tag
As you can see from the above screenshot, our new commenting system comes with a Rich Editor, meaning that you can format your comments much more easily now, woot! 🥳 (Update: I’ve now enabled the Rich Editor for mobile, do let me know if you guys have any issues with using it!)
I thought it would be helpful to explain how to add a spoiler tag, using the new Rich Editor. All you have to do, is type out your spoiler, then highlight it (like you would, if you were selecting some text for other editing options like underlining), then click on the “spoiler” button, which will then automatically add the spoiler formatting for you.
After you click “Post Comment,” your spoiler will be hidden like in the following screenshot, and all anyone needs to do to read it, is to click on it. Pretty neat, yes?
I thought that would be particularly useful for a drama discussion site like ours. 😊
You can now add pictures!
You’ll notice that in the bottom right corner of your Rich Editor, there’s a little picture icon there. All you have to do is to click on it, in order to share a picture with your comment. That’s something we couldn’t do previously, so I’m pretty stoked about that!
Other features
If you need the specific link of any comment, just mouse over the top right of the comment, and you’ll see the “link” icon. Clicking on that will copy the comment’s URL to your clipboard, so that you can easily paste it where you want it, eg, in a new comment.
You can also navigate comments in a couple of new ways. The comments still appear newest first (unless I pin a comment, which I can now do, YESSS!). However, as an option, clicking on the little yellow lightning bolt will take you to the comment with the most reactions (thumbs up &/or thumbs down), and clicking on the orange flame will take you to the hottest comment thread, ie, the comment with the most number of responses. Pretty nifty, yes? 😃
Edited to add:
You can subscribe to new comments on the post, or new replies to your comment, by clicking on the little Subscribe button above the comment box. Edited to add: You do not need to make a comment in order to subscribe to comments. You can just click on that little green button on the right, after selecting what comments you’d like to subscribe to.
Edited AGAIN to add:
1. Following other users
If you are WordPress user, you can now follow other commenters on the blog, ie, you will be alerted when the followed user posts on the blog.
If I wanted to follow Lehar, all I’d need to do is click on that little icon that appears under her profile picture. That will turn the icon orange, which means my follow is successful. To unfollow, just click on that icon again, which will turn it gray, indicating that your unfollow is successful.
2. User mentioning is enabled
What this means is that you can mention / tag other users in your comments using the @nickname method. Previously, this didn’t do anything except add clarity to our comments sections, but now, this will actually trigger an email notification to the mentioned user. Updated to add: You do need to be signed in via one of the sign-in options, in order for the tags to work.
I’m sorry for the multiple edits, guys. I’m learning about this commenting system as I go. 😅 If I find out anything else that’s cool, I’ll update the post again!
Edited AGAIN to add:
Managing your content and settings
You can manage your subscriptions to comments, as well as your follows, and easily find other comments that you’ve made, by clicking on that little person icon next to the number of comments. You will find this directly under the comment box, and before all the comments start.
..And that’s about it!
The rest of the Rich Editor should be fairly easy to navigate. Have fun exploring it, my friends! I hope you enjoy the new tools that are now available to us! ❤️
If you have any questions, let me know in the comments, and we’ll figure it out together!
I don’t remember how I felt about Thirty Nine when I first started watching. Maybe a bit uncertain if I wanted to watch. As I got involved – I needed to stay with it. Tonight, I finished with a big ache in my chest. I have lost a spouse, parents, siblings, teenage sweetheart, and other loves. This brought it all back to me and as much as I liked the series, I would have been better off not watching.
That being said – I loved the acting – I didn’t find any of it bad. I watch all the K Series. I wish I would have said to myself how sad the ending was going to be. I don’t want to feel like this.
Lots of nice new features with the new system 🙂 I hope it works out well for you and everyone!
We had a number of teething issues, but happily, all is now sorted, and everything appears to be working as it should! I hope you enjoy using it too! 😃
Oh and one other thing for folks like me: one can edit/proof without the clock running out. With my eyesight these days, not to mention my tendency to think in compound, complex, phrase rich sentences no one else can follow, I am particularly grateful.
That’s good information, that the editing time itself won’t run out on you! Thanks BE! 😃
EEK! KFG! I have a problem!
So I get an email notice of a current to which I want to respond, so I hit “respond” button that previously would plop me right under the person’s comment (for the moment anyway) and show me exactly who I’m responding to. But now, it appears that I’m just responding to nobody.
WAIT THOUGH. Let’s see where this lands first after I hit “send”
ETA: It shot my comment to the top. Oh well, no need to fix because, now that I think about it, that’s not unusual. I think it just threw me for a second because it used to show me clearly right advice the open comment field “Responding to [insert name]”.
Never mind. All’s right with the world. 👌
Very cool. KFG – is there a reason that you and other bloggers don’t show a date on your posts? By “post”, i mean the full article?
I often wonder the date posts were made depending on various things. For this particular post, I was just wondering how I missed it.
EDIT: yay , I’m editing! It’s awesome!
@beez Unless a blogger has the website designed from scratch (which is time-consuming & expensive to do), the blogger is using a blog theme where there is some wiggle room for customization but most things have to taken as is, out of the box. Where the date is displayed is one of the things that isn’t easily changed.
For my theme, the date is there, but it’s not obvious. If you want to see when a post is published, look at the line of tags at the bottom of the post. The line of tags (along with author and date) is also visible on the home page, under the “Like” button, beneath the post blurb. 😊
PS: If you’re subscribed to the blog, though, you should’ve received an email notification that I’d posted? Did that not happen? 🤔
@KFG – I missed your response in my emails. (I’m still set on receiving ALL comments so there’s a LOT.) AOL updated the email app so now for some reason no matter if I choose the options to see a 1 line, 2 line or 3 line preview, it’s never the first line of anyone’s comment! So I’m missing the “@Beez”. Once you said that you’d responded, I did a search of my email for @Beez and see that I never opened it. (That’s so many that I have to pick and choose which to read or is never get anything else done, nor any drama watching in.) I’ll have search that way from now on until enough people complain to AOL about how stupid it is to preview lines from the middle of any email. (You know I’ve sent my feedback about it weeks ago 😉 )
Testing, texting,tasting.
My new avatar appears appropriately grumpy. It does seem that it will take a luddite or whatever old keyboard challenged folks like myself are called (lunkhead might be more appropriate) to figure out how to follow everyone and threads here. But I like that I can hit the like button and I do not have to join Word Press to express affection for a comment.
Hi BE! Yay for a working spoiler tag! 🥳 I do notice that the font size reverts to the smaller default size post-spoiler (I’ve tweaked the font size via some code that was given to me).. Let me see if I can get any advice in terms of how to have the font size stay larger after the spoiler!
As for following others, you’d probably need to be signed in on a Gravatar or WordPress account in order to be able to do that.. I haven’t yet been successful in adding in other ways of signing in, but I’ll try again when I am able!
If after being finished with the spoiler one hits the enter key and starts on a new line, the original font size returns.
I tried that when I did a test, but it weirdly didn’t work for me.
The spoiler tag is working on the website, which it great, but it appears that if you have email notification of comments, the spoiler function doesn’t translate to the body of the email. You’ll see the [sp*iler] tag on either side [/sp*iler], with the plain text visible in between.
I realize that it’s the same when I view the comments via my dashboard as well.. I can check to see if there’s any fix for that, though I have a feeling that this could be a design feature of the plugin.. 😝
Yeah, it may be something not really fixable, per se.
I don’t mind clicking over to the main site to read comments, so it’s not a big deal for me personally, just something for people to be aware about, I guess.
Yeah, it does seem that viewing comments on the actual post itself would make for a safer experience! 😅
Thanks for highlighting how the spoiler tags behave on email, that’s useful information!
Ok, testing, testing.
Ooh, I like the bold, italic, underline options as I often need to emphasise, especially if mentioning Jang Hyuk.
Speaking of, let me see if I can add an emoji 😍 Yippee! I don’t think I can survive without emojis 😉
How about a picture then… Yay! And you’re welcome.
I think it’s better, Kfangurl. xx
Ahh! How cool, you are the first one to post a picture in a comment on the site, Ele! Well, aside from me because I had administrator rights from before, but that doesn’t count. 😅 And how fab, that you made that first picture of the uber charismatic Bang Won! 🤩🤩🤩
I can like comments too! And, yes, not just Bangwon, but Bangwon with a fan 😍
Ahaha! I have to confess, I was so distracted by Bang Won himself, I did not even see the fan! 😆🤩🤩 Also, yay about being able to like comments! I remember some folks mentioned that they were unable to as well, and sometimes the “Like” button disappeared for them, even. Happy that this new system is working out well so far! 🥳😃
He has so many fans at this site.
Ba dum…tiss.
@BE Ah, now you’ve got me happily imagining being expertly swished around in Bangwon’s oh-so-cool hand 😅
@Ele Nash – I’m going to start using a fan emoji and you’ll know that means that’s an actor has me “Jang Hyuk hot”! really keyboard? Really? No hand fan? Not even a room fan? Sigh. Okay I’ll settle for whatever this thing is ♨ I think it looks like I’ve melted into a puddle and I’m giving off steam. Oh wait. maybe that’s a stinky manhole giving off steam?
Feel free to take this image beez, edit it down.
Or even better if you can capture this
@BE – I snurched it. Thanks, BE. Although my issue is with wanting emojis is because they’re right there on the keyboard so I can use them quickly. I know that I could get a better keyboard with more variety of emojis but I like the optional Korean keyboard that comes with the one I’m using it just needs more emojis.
@beez There’s not a panther emoji either… Puddle it is – and to be fair, a melted puddle is often how I feel when he’s on my screen 😅
That was great Ele! Made my day!
@phl1rxd 😉
Oh, cool. Let’s test it. Hmmm… this does not automatically link to my WP specs but I have to fill in name, email and website info…. bit of a bother as I’ve become kinda accustomed to the ease of it. 🙂 Annnd it seems I can’t reply directly from WP Reader anymore, at least not from my pc. There’s no comments “bubble” to click. Is that a glitch or is it supposed to work like this?
Hi Timescout! I did some poking around, and I’ve managed to add a “connect with WordPress” button that now appears next to the “login” in the top right corner. That said, now that you’ve signed in manually, the system should remember you. But if you visit the site from a new browser, it’ll be easier for you to sign into WordPress, I think! I’m not sure if this will trigger the ability to reply from WP Reader.. let me know if it does?
As for the comments bubble, are you referring to the “notify me of new comments” thing? If so, the little bell icon next to the “Post Comment” button should work. And, the subscribe button above the comment box should work as well. If that’s not what you were referring to, let me know!
Duh, I suddenly realized what you meant about not being able to reply from your WP Reader! 🤦🏻♀️ Sorry, it was really early in the morning when I first read your comment! 😅 Unfortunately, I had to disable the comments-related features of Jetpack, in order to get this new comments plugin to work properly. I think there must have been some conflicts.. That’s probably why the comments speech bubble doesn’t show anymore. 😝 So sorry about this! I hope you don’t mind visiting the site itself to comment 🥺😅
No worries, I don’t mind visiting the blog to comment. I’ll have to test it again when I’m back from work today. I can still comment from the WP reader on my phone. Guess it’s different as that’s an app. 😊
Ooh! That’s interesting! I remember there’s a WP app for desktops too, though I don’t use it myself. I wonder if you’d be able to use that? I personally didn’t prefer accessing WP through the app while at my laptop though 😅
Nah, I never bothered with the desktop app either. 😁 Another thing I forgotnto mention , is that I didn’t get WP notification for your replies to my initial comment on the blog but did for the one I wrote on my phone. Strange.
Hmm.. that’s possibly because you commented via the app and therefore the app is able to track it? 🤔 Just thinking aloud.. I actually am a total noob at this technical stuff, and am bumbling my way through everything, to get stuff sorted! 😂😅
Yeah, that’s what I believe too, it’s the app.
Seems that the system does remember me and I don’t have to fill in those boxes below again. Great! Next I’ll try that connect with WP button, but that’ll be another test post. 😀
Yes, I’ve found that once I sign in, the system remembers me, unless I go to a new browser 😊
Ooh, this looks much more robust, features-wise! It also remembers my info (rather than requiring a click-and-autofill), so that’s a win right there…
ETA: the only potential downside is the default font size appears to be a lot smaller, which matters to those of us whose eyesight is getting a bit creaky. Definitely not a deal-breaker, though, it’s still readable.
Yes, the font-size is not ideal.. I’m trying to find a fix, and have submitted a ticket to enquire about this. Hang tight, hopefully I’ll be able to get that sorted! 😅
Coolness! If it doesn’t happen, like I said, not a deal breaker…
Ahhh!!! I’ve just received the CSS that adjusts the font size of comments! We have a fix, Trent!!! 🥳😱😍🥲
Yay!! (insert kermit_flail.gif)
That’s so weird, that the gif file you uploaded isn’t showing! I need to look into getting this fixed – hopefully I’ll receive help soon, and have this new commenting plugin running like the dream it promises to be! 😅
Hahaha, no. I couldn’t figure out how to insert actual gifs on the fly (especially on a mobile), so I just wrote out the description and left it to the readers’ imagination.
Ah, ok, thanks for clarifying, Trent! 😅 Actually, I haven’t yet figured out how to have the Rich Editor enabled on mobile, as in, the instructions say that I need a robust optimization and cache plugin in place, before enabling the Rich Editor for mobile, otherwise there will be mobility issues. So for now, the Rich Editor – along with all those nice features like adding a gif – is only available on non-mobile devices. 😝 I’m trying to figure out what optimization and cache settings need to be in place in order to safely enable the Rich Editor for mobile though! Can’t make any promises, but hopefully I’ll get that sorted too!
Ok, so update: I’ve run an optimization on the site, and spoken to a Tech at WordPress, and basically, long story short, the Rich Editor is now enabled for mobile as well! Cautious whoop! I’m hoping it works well – do let me know if you encounter issues while using it on mobile! 😅
Wow ..it is super cool thank you
I’m so glad you like it, Lehar! 😃