Comments on: Unsolicited blogging advice, Part 2 https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620 Cutting straight to the point Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ezzie https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-12259 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:37:35 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-12259 Pop-up comments *are* better. I have to go back 2-3 pages just to get back, which is annoying, on blogs that go to comments pages. It also sometimes reloads the entire original page, which is also annoying. I’d rather scroll and pop out a comments window on occasion.

But I hear you on the tabs (though I don’t mind having a million).

]]> By: ilyka https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-12196 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:59:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-12196 m too pissed off at the author of that blog to ever go back.</blockquote> Yikes, it's not me, is it? It's funny, I didn't even know you'd posted this, and I was just complaining about it in response to your comment at my blog. Oh man, I really, REALLY hope it isn't me.]]>

Ezzie, I’m too pissed off at the author of that blog to ever go back.

Yikes, it’s not me, is it?

It’s funny, I didn’t even know you’d posted this, and I was just complaining about it in response to your comment at my blog.

Oh man, I really, REALLY hope it isn’t me.

]]> By: Cynic https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-12043 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:42:14 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-12043 t you read a post, click on comments if you want to comment, then hit the back button to continue reading the next post?</blockquote> I do but it is usually two hits to get back past the comment already posted.]]>

Why wouldn’t you read a post, click on comments if you want to comment, then hit the back button to continue reading the next post?

I do but it is usually two hits to get back past the comment already posted.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11977 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:08:51 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11977 I kind of like popup comments better, and argued with my designer over whether or not to use them. He ultimately convinced me otherwise.

Why wouldn’t you read a post, click on comments if you want to comment, then hit the back button to continue reading the next post? It seems utterly natural to me.

Of course, half the time I stop midway through the comment and say, “Why are you bothering?” because I often want to get in the middle of a really stupid debate. But then I stop myself.

Life’s too short.

]]> By: Cynic https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11967 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:33:22 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11967 Meryl,
I’m just giving an example and not blaming you.
Just trying to point out that opening a link in another tab or window helps.
Anyway when I comment here it would be easier if the comment window opened in a new tab or window, (Haloscan makes things easier; but then again trying to get back from a link in a comment kills the comment window/tab in most cases)
which saves all that backing up to read the rest of your posts.

I don’t like perusing all the posts first and then commenting cause I tend lose my train of thought.
Yeh! I know it’s my fault that age doesn’t permit me to keep up with the gamers.
Read that a little old lady was fined for crossing the road too slowly. Will it be long before one will have to satisfy a “point and click” speed test to use the net? :-)

]]> By: Jerry Ritcey https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11936 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:07:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11936 I have a checkbox at the top of my blog that lets you choose whether to open in new windows. I tend to read by opening several tabs and reading each tab, one at a time. But if many people feel like you do, maybe they find having new windows be default annoying, so I defaulted it to not open in new windows now.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11910 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:37:43 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11910 Ezzie, I’m too pissed off at the author of that blog to ever go back.

I have Firefox. I haven’t changed it to open in new tabs because I don’t want that many tabs open, either.

I make a note of bloggers that are secure enough to let me leave their blog on my own, and those that have issues. ;-)

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11908 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:36:07 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11908 That’s entirely Typepad, Cynic. Blame their scripts, not me. When you click on a link in my navbars, you go to that link. It’s pure html, no scripts, for me.

]]> By: Al Everett https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11905 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:32:33 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11905 I also suggest, for those who prefer opening links in new windows, to try using shift-click on the link. That’ll open the link in a new window. That’s what I do when I don’t want to navigate away from the page I’m reading just to peek at a different page.

Similarly, Ctrl-click will open a link in a new tab in Firefox.

]]> By: Cynic https://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620/comment-page-1#comment-11886 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:12:02 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/10/1620#comment-11886 Snoopy said:
Going back is cumbersome, while just shutting a window down …

Amen!
Meryl I use your links to other bloggers and if I have to log in to comment with Typepad, for example, I cannot just “go back one page” to get back to your site Is this a trick perhaps to get me to click on bookmarks again? :-)
Seriously it makes life much easier for the aged, the infirm, the tired and the huddled masses trying to get some worthwhile reading done.

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