Comments on: You Have Fifteen Minutes to Get It Right

By: Christina Viering

Christina Viering — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:02:19 +0000

Interesting.

By: Greg Black

Greg Black — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:45:49 +0000

I’m delighted by the author at the top feature, but mildly concerned that you seem to have missed the fact that it takes exactly 17 minutes to discover a typo in this universe.

By: Brian Mingus

Brian Mingus — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:00:54 +0000

As someone who asked for the author to be moved to the top of the posts so we didn’t have to scroll down to the bottom before we read the post to figure out who were were reading, thanks! Although, I am getting pretty good at figuring out who wrote what. I can almost always figure out when its Sean.

Linking the comments to the comments is another nice one. Honestly, it would be better if when you clicked the comments link it just showed them to you on the same page using ajax. Forcing us to click the title to go to another page is just a dirty way to get ad impressions. It’s one of the things thats very broken about Internet business models right now. Advertisers assume that an “impression” is an actual human being looking at the ad but thats not really how it works. I believe they call this sort of thing inflation? Anyway, it’s part of the reason sites such as the WSJ are going behind a paywall – its a very broken business model.

By: Julianne

Julianne — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:31:16 +0000

Now if only the “ comments” in the header were actually a link to the comments…

The bloggy overlords are aware of that feature, and will hopefully get us a patch soon.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:15:00 +0000

THANK YOU! I strongly prefer author links at the top.

Now if only the “ comments” in the header were actually a link to the comments….

By: Gavin Flower

Gavin Flower — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:27:07 +0000

???

By: Gavin Flower

Gavin Flower — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Hmm…

By: ioresult

ioresult — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:20:21 +0000

let’s test this
edit: I thought editing also meant I could delete my comment.

By: Oded

Oded — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:39:04 +0000

Hmm, I actually preferred the author name at the end.. I would read articles and spend the whole article trying to guess who the author was, then check if I got it right

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:50:09 +0000

Sometimes accidents are more clever than intents.

(Another aphorism with no connection to that other post.)