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We have decided to pull back on the threaded comments. It was a good idea in theory, but as many of you pointed out, it hasn’t worked very well practically. The biggest deal breaker is how badly it breaks our iphone interface when there are 3 or 4 replies to a comment. And I think posters raised some very good points about how the threads will look during game nights. The comment boxes really end up overwhelming the interface when there are too many replies. So it’s something that we tried and it didn’t quite work. I know some people liked it and it is something we can always revisit if we can figure out a better way to do it. We appreciate all your feedback.
Don’t forget, you can check out a replay of today’s video chat right here:
Thanks for trying anyway Jeff the Tech Guy!
Our short national nightmare is over!
The blog is back to normal?!!!!
Thanks Jeff
Glad that we are going back to the old way but thanks for trying.
Whew…It was just a bad dream.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
In the future I think threaded comments can work if:
- Threads only run 3 replies deep
- Threads are bumped to the ‘bottom’ when replied to
I don’t know if this is feasible, but if that can be implemented it’d be good.
Thank God!!! It may not be as fancy as other sites, but it’s home
The “Reply” button got whacked?
Thank God!!! It may not be as fancy as other sites, but it’s home
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Yes Rishi. Kansas isnt so bad(never really been there).
Bronx Jeers beat me to it.
The “Reply” button got whacked?
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Bronx Jeers,
I think they went black screen on it instead. You never know if it got whacked or makes a comeback.
S.o.S.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Thank God!!! It may not be as fancy as other sites, but it’s home
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Yes Rishi. Kansas isnt so bad(never really been there).
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I’ve been – not that bad if you like wide open spaces and bar-be-que
The biggest deal breaker is how badly it breaks our iphone interface when there are 3 or 4 replies to a comment.
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I wonder what it did to it when Nick decided to play the cube game on it? BTW, i won by getting the last pinstripe in.
I don’t see today’s chat in the on demand section…
Jerkface makes a good call on the concept of bumping the recent posts as they appear on the thread…The reply option was good if the respones didn’t get lost …..I’m cool with status quo actually
Thanks Jeff
Love that you guys care about trying to make it better but are willing to roll with the punches when it doesn’t work out.
Bronx Jeers,
I think they went black screen on it instead. You never know if it got whacked or makes a comeback.
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And of course the answer may lay in the lyrics to this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0
It does feel like we are home again doesn’t it???
Thanks for trying. Just wasn’t working out. I personally cant wait for persistent names. Any chance we can get linked up to the Discuss network or OpenID…something like that?
Also I cant find the chat on the On Demand listing. Any idea how long till it is processed and added up there?
Thanks a lot.
Rishi
February 15th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Thank God!!! It may not be as fancy as other sites, but it’s home
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Completely agree
Thanks for looking at new ways to improve the blog. Fearing change is a bad thing.
Valiant effort, Jeff, just doesn’t make much practical sense in this ‘community.’
2 more days till daily/hourly player updates!(I hope)
AHhhhhh….
Just like comfy pair of old slippers!
Love the Lohud ‘ classic ‘ format.
Jeff – you made the right call here. Call me old school.
This is going to hit the nesters hardest.
I fear for Phil Hughes.
Yeah .. the chat will take a while to process. I’m not sure exactly how long, but keep checking back.
That’s good news.
I’m sure I didn’t express this in my annoyance over the new function, but I did appreciate that you and your fellow IT people tried something new because you wanted to make this blog better. It just didn’t work, practically speaking. Thanks for trying, Jeff!
Jeff, thanks much for trying. It might be a good idea to put your email on the main page so people can contact you directly with feedback.
Nick, don’t fear for Phil. He’s tougher than you or Damon give him credit for. He’s lived through the Santana trade talks and through most Yankee fans thinking he’s a bust. Now he has to deal with Joba threatening him, lol. He’ll be fine…
Too bad. But since it’s a systems issue, there’s not much for the pro reply button crowd to complain about. Thanks for trying.
“This is going to hit the nesters hardest.
I fear for Phil Hughes.”
Nest or no nest…the baby birds must be protected!
Damon was appealing to Hughes’ inner toughness. If Johnny didn’t think/hope that Phil could handle the tough love, he wouldn’t have bothered.
I’m glad Johnny was right.
LOL Nick, but Damon obviously thought Joba needed more tender loving care since he didn’t call him out. Damon could be a psychiatrist in his next life..
hey, peter a. is tweeting away at red sox spring training,even photos.
time to get down there for lohud.
we need news.
What does Joba have to do with it?
Jeff – Hi again. Marx huh…that name carries alot of history behind it. So tell me, if you had to describe your personality would it be more Karl (deep thinker – money guy)or Groucho (deep thinker – funny guy)?
“# randy l. February 15th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
hey, peter a. is tweeting away at red sox spring training,even photos.
time to get down there for lohud.
we need news.
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I didn’t like the personal shots/biases he had about certain players but he was great in that regard…photo updates every few hours during Spring Training practices and games….I hope that continues w/ the new cast that has been doing a great job
The most recent pictures on the demolition of Yankee Stadium are like little darts in my heart…..Painful
“we need news.”
Hughes and Chamberlain threw bullpens and AJ showed up and played catch.
Eiland pitched BP to Jeter, Granderson and Gardner. CG and BG worked on over the shoulder drills and bunting.
Granderson said he spoke with Girardi and told him he’s okay if he wanted to use him in LF or CF.
Can’t help with the pictures.
Continue to allow “reply to this comment” and only display comments in threads if the user chooses to view them that way (and disable that option on iPhone/mobile browsers). That way any uesr who really likes threaded comments can view them that way, or if a user, like me, who doesn’t like it, happens to want to view all comments in a particular thread, he can, temporarily.
pat,
Saw you “tweeting” here about who’s doing what at the minor league complex. Are you there? Sounds like it!
stanzy, the problem is when responding to threaded comments, you don’t have to reference who/what you’re responding to. if someone opts not to have comments threaded, those threaded posts won’t make any sense without context
Thanks Spider, now go get me that Crown Royal.
Jeff, having done some programming, I appreciate the effort. It just doesn’t work well in this format.
pat
February 15th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
“we need news.”
Hughes and Chamberlain threw bullpens and AJ showed up and played catch.
Eiland pitched BP to Jeter, Granderson and Gardner. CG and BG worked on over the shoulder drills and bunting.
Granderson said he spoke with Girardi and told him he’s okay if he wanted to use him in LF or CF.
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pat, are you there?! Make sure to let me know if there’s a Robinson Cano sighting
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My husband and son are in Tampa and went this morning but not open to the public today. Security said they would let them in tomorrow to watch but couldn’t today.
They gave me play by play on what players showed up and what cars they were driving but the baseball info came from Bryan Hoch’s tweets.
The Joba info I left you earlier was from what they could see from a distance.
wsr – That’s the way it is without threading, anyway, no? Some posters are in the habit of indicating which comment they’re responding to, some aren’t. But if the threaded view is an option, and you want to know to whom/what someone is responding, switch to threaded view to see the context. Or, if someone uses the “reply to” link, the software can automatically copy the poster name, timestamp, and even a bit of the text of the comment being replied to into the reply.
Or better still, in non threaded view, comments that were left using “reply to” can automatically display with the commenter name, timestamp, bit of text to which they refer.
It’s all about options.
pat,
Really? Your husband must really love you. lol.
Thanks for passing on the info.
I’m sure the beat writers that are there will regurgitate the same info in time.
CG and BG worked on over the shoulder drills and bunting.
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Workout partners?
I’m assuming that CG is Granderson? He needs a longer nickname like GGBG has. Guess we have to do it since PeteAbe’s not here anymore.
What could GGCG stand for?
One thing I wish we had (and maybe we do, I’m low tech) is the ability to directly message one another if we want to take our little debate off site. There have been times when I have dropped a one-on-one joust because I was concerned it was rude to others who were reading.
Is that of any interest?
Johnny Damon is sure having a hard time deciding among all those lucrative offers he supposedly has. Maybe the mystery team is the Jamaican Bobsled Team?
pat,
thanks for the info.
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yankee security is sometimes comical in tampa.
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Humors me is more like it.
If not for our son being there, he would have been on the golf course instead of watching baseball players arrive at the field.
GGCG=
Good Guy Curtis Granderson?
Who put that scary picture up!
@sab definitely groucho. Not sure about the deep thinking part though lol.
I just read that Cisco has a head injury and will be out of action for a month.
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo....._game.html
jennifer
February 15th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I just read that Cisco has a head injury and will be out of action for a month.
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jennifer-he won’t be out of action for a month-he already was earlier this winter
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo.....z0fbsm0J3x
LOl. unlike anyone wearing pinstripes or bossing them around our blog guys are allowed to try and sometimes fail. Its all in the pursuit of excellence. Nice try guys. I didn’t hate it.
I wouldn’t count on seeing the Reply button again anytime soon: I heard it just signed on with Scott Boras.
Erin, oh my reading comprehension skills are gone today.
jennifer
February 15th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Erin, oh my reading comprehension skills are gone today.
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LOL that’s OK, it’s Monday
yanks just another won game on yankee classic. that clutchless abum, hit a walkoff hr
Jeff -
Thanks for such a rapid response.
Appreciate your trying to upgrade the blog. It was certainly worth the test run.
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pat -
Thanks for the ST update!
I’d still like to see a correction button. I think that it would require registration so only the original poster could make the corrections. This would a huge addition for illiterates like Randy, who’s a pretty nice guy (snicker), just not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Hope he knows when to get inside out of the rain.
IT!!!
i like threaded. Hate navigating the off-topic convo, and i don’t use ‘hate’ much. RAB doesn’t make their theaded boxes smaller after teh fourth or fifth comment. food for thought
I think a semi-threaded, voted comment system similar to Engadget (Jeff will know what I’m talking about) would work well on this site.
An interesting note from MLB-Rumors-R-Us. MLB roster players that are out of options. I’d love to see a list of Yankee farm kids and their number of options left.
Athletics
Eric Patterson
Angels
Brandon Wood, Brian Stokes, Bobby Wilson, Reggie Willits, Terry Evans
Astros
Alberto Arias, Yorman Bazardo, Tim Byrdak, Jeff Keppinger, Humberto Quintero
Blue Jays
Brian Tallet, Shawn Camp, Dustin McGowan, Merkin Valdez, Sean Henn
Braves
Melky Cabrera
Brewers
Todd Coffey, Corey Hart, Joe Inglett, Hernan Iribarren, George Kottaras, Chris Narveson, Manny Parra, Rickie Weeks
Cardinals
Cubs
Jeff Baker, Andres Blanco, Tom Gorzelanny, Angel Guzman, Koyie Hill, Geovany Soto
Diamondbacks
Blaine Boyer, Leo Rosales
Dodgers
Hong-Chih Kuo, Eric Stults, Ronald Belisario, Charlie Haeger
Giants
Travis Ishikawa, Fred Lewis, Brandon Medders, Nate Schierholtz, Andres Torres
Indians
Fausto Carmona, Shin-Soo Choo, Andy Marte, Rafael Perez, Jeremy Sowers, Mitch Talbot
Mariners
David Aardsma, Brandon League, Franklin Gutierrez, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Ian Snell, Ryan Langerhans
Marlins
Hayden Penn, Dan Meyer, Leo Nunez, Renyel Pinto, Brian Sanches, Cody Ross
Mets
Pat Misch, Anderson Hernandez, Nelson Figueroa, Fernando Nieve
Nationals
Jason Bergmann, Brian Bruney, Sean Burnett, Matt Chico, Tyler Clippard, Doug Slaten, Tyler Walker, Mike Morse, Josh Willingham
Orioles
Matt Albers, Robert Andino, Jeremy Guthrie, Felix Pie
Padres
Edward Mujica, Tim Stauffer, Sean Gallagher
Phillies
Pirates
Brandon Moss, Andy LaRoche
Rangers
Joaquin Arias, Scott Feldman, Nelson Cruz, Luis Mendoza, Dustin Nippert
Rays
Willy Aybar, Jason Bartlett, Lance Cormier, J.P. Howell, Dan Johnson, Elliot Johnson, Jeff Niemann
Red Sox
Boof Bonser, Manny Delcarmen, Jeremy Hermida
Reds
Homer Bailey, Wladimir Balentien, Nick Masset
Rockies
Royals
Tigers
Don Kelly, Brad Thomas
Twins
Scott Baker, Clay Condrey, Alexi Casilla, Brendan Harris, Delmon Young
White Sox
Jayson Nix, Sergio Santos
Yankees
Chad Gaudin, Sergio Mitre, Mike Rivera
Or how about also making threads auto-collapse by default as well. You could make that work on an iPhone, you guys just lack some creative CSS.
Yay, no more nests. And Yay, finally spring training…altho it is hard to think of spring when it is cold and snowy. Who would believe Johnny D would still be unsigned by this late date.
peter a. – The “interested reader” from the noo maaas . org blog !
How will P. Abe be able to fit in the matchbox clubhouse for interviews in Fort Myers ? Maybe sideways ?
New post.
Jeff- great attempt at a change although people are not able to accept change. Give it a try later.
ST is almost here!! I need to buy a new pillow for my computer chair.
Will someone explain the implications of Melky being on the option list?? Can the Yankees get him back??
i thought it was awesome
but i don’t post enough anymore for my opinion to count