Today the single comment view makes its triumphant return. It should look pretty familiar in it’s structure and how it integrates into the rest of the site. Take a look: copy a link to a single comment by right clicking on the date associated with a comment and paste it into the url bar of a new browser window. Or just click on a comment in your list of recent replies or recent comments. Or just click this. How does it look?
A lot of other features have gone up recently, too— the full list is below the fold. Of note is load-as-you-scroll-images. This means that on load, the browser will only fetch images for that part of that page that is in view, not the whole page. Then as you scroll it will fetch images for whatever part of the page you scroll to. Together this means your browser only pulls down images that are needed, greatly reducing the initial page load and, generally, reducing the over-all amount of data pulled down, too. We seeing page load times of about 4.5 sec before ads, which feels pretty spiffy!
Release Notes January 22, 2016
- Images load as you scroll
- Https everywhere extension should be working again
- Comment recommends should appear to stick better
- Comment read status should stick better
- Headline line-break fixes
- Unallowed tag characters won't break scheduling
- Polls will publish from scheduler
- "diaries" changing to "stories" in various places in text
- Broken attributions fixed
- Single comment page
- Upgrading the title of this story to something other than “Release notes [date]”. Thanks OLinda!
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