Timeline for Let's make it easier to reply within comments!
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| May 6, 2013 at 12:22 | comment | added | GoodSp33d |
New users will not know how to use @user , can we instead have a reply link to comment which is nothing but Add comment but with @user pre-populated. Makes sense ? Am sure 90% of users wont click on Help
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| Jun 1, 2011 at 13:21 | comment | added | user1228 | @randolpho @tomalak if you don't already know stackapps.com/questions/2051/reply-links-on-comments works great. | |
| Nov 27, 2010 at 15:37 | comment | added | RedFilter |
-1: While the notification changes are great, this is an overly complex solution that doesn't really solve some fundamental issues: incorrect matching, typos by user, forgetting to type username at all, username changes, overall usabilit (even Twitter has a reply-to link). Replies should instead be linked by UserID.
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| Nov 27, 2010 at 15:32 | comment | added | RedFilter | @dreamlax: Not sure if you are serious or not, but to me, implementing something like that is admitting that the comment reply system as-is is a failure. | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 7:30 | comment | added | dreamlax | With regards to (5), we can't use @John[3] to refer to the fourth John (assuming most programmers think 0-based). | |
| Jun 14, 2010 at 7:35 | history | edited | Jeff Atwood StaffMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 25, 2010 at 14:14 | comment | added | AnthonyWJones | @Tomalak: I also agree with @Randolpho, its trivial and would be a significant improvement in usability. Co-incidentally I just notice a new SO user that has taken the name 103067513055141045393 and I've been conversing with someone who has the name user301089, its painful and fiddly. | |
| Mar 25, 2010 at 2:20 | comment | added | Tomalak | @Jeff: I agree with Randolpho. This (the "reply" button/link) would make even more sense now. I find myself copy-pasting usernames very often because I don't want to mistype them (knowing that would make the notification mechanism fail). This is unnecessarily fiddly and could easily solved by such a feature. Plus it would make new users readily aware of the existence if an actual @reply system. | |
| Jan 25, 2010 at 13:10 | comment | added | Randolpho | I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but what about the first part of the post requesting a simple link called "reply" next to a comment, automatically inserting the standard @UserName: text? Seems fairly trivial and highly useful... | |
| Jan 18, 2010 at 19:10 | comment | added | OscarRyz | @Will I guess this is declined as it is, but implemented some other way | |
| Jan 18, 2010 at 17:36 | comment | added | user1228 | Great changes to comments. Now, is this the feature request that spawned this, or is there another? Because its still marked as status-declined :) | |
| Jan 18, 2010 at 17:36 | vote | accept | Community Bot | moved from User.Id=1228 by developer User.Id=811 | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 7:32 | history | answered | Jeff Atwood StaffMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |