Daily Kos makes radical leap forward on blog comment technology
Over at DailyKos - the biggest political blog on the planet - they've done some impressive re-coding of how they handle comments.
They've got improved "recommend" and "troll" rating systems for comments -- submitting them live, so readers don't have to refresh; a way to open and close comment threads; and a better comment editor.
But, the most amazing thing is the almost-magical auto-refresh feature. We'll let the developer describe it himself:
And the most whiz-bang high-tech feat of derring-do is the Autorefresh feature. This uses Ajax to turn Daily Kos diaries into threaded online chat rooms. It was designed with both live blogging and Armando in mind...no longer do you have to impulsively click your browser's Reload button to see new comments coming into the thread. Just check the Autorefresh box (it's a system-wide preference) and several times a minute updates will stream in, adding their comments, updating ratings and recommenders, all without disturbing what you're doing.
We've been playing with it a bit - and it's truly astonishing. It makes blog commenting MUCH more like a running conversation, rather than the disjointed post-wait-refresh thing that happens on most blogs.
Of course, it makes sense for Kos - but not for many other blogs - given their huge traffic.
Impressive. We'll report later on lessons learned for the rest of us.
Head on over and read the details at DailyKos.
Kari Chisholm | March 13, 2006 | Comments (1) |
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I hope to get all the people to vote for me, I am the only one with ideas and will bring them to fruition. The bums that were in the office decided to get out while they could when their term was over. For years the commissioners office was a good-ol-boys club where they help socials, posed for calenders, anotherwords did nothing- except collect their pay. Then go to work at their own business- preatty sweet deal.
now that the county is bankrupt and in termoil, I hope I will get elected over all of them to try and clean up the mess- if it is not too late
Posted by: paul | Mar 18, 2006 4:18:40 PM
