Have a look at
the beta site. The tech team has just pushed up a handful of improvements and we'd love to get your feedback. We are hoping to launch DK5 to dailykos.com in November, so let us know what you think now before we freeze the for-launch feature set.
This deploy focuses mostly on the comment tree design. Check the list below for the comprehensive change log, but the basic idea is to make some of the comment indicators less visually ambiguous. For example, we previously had three different background colors for comments indicating things like the comment was selected or the comment was written by the story’s author. This was pretty difficult to parse. Background color is now only used for comments in preview mode (preview was previously not distinguished from other comments, causing people to leave the page before their comment was posted).
There are two large comment features left before we launch. The first is the ability to navigate the comment tree with key commands. This will replace the old “ctrl-f [new]” trick for finding unread comments. The second feature will be an improvement in how the site records which comments are unread. This will allow users to go to their recent comment replies page and open up one comment at a time and not have this cause all new comments on a single story to be marked as read.
Comment Fixes
- Only comment previews will display a background color
- Selected comments now show an orange outline instead of a background color
- Fold triangle is now large and more visible
- Comment unread dot now appears next to avatars
- Comment date/times now user a shorter time format
- Increase comment thread nesting from 6-levels to 8
- Story author's comments are now marked with a peach background color behind their user name
Other Fixes
- Fix tag deletion from images
- Fix loading of comments that were linked to
- Fix jumpiness when clicking on links to other comments
- Display a message if commenting is now closed on the story
- Fix video embeds to scale up and down with the browser size
- Tag history fixes
- Image descriptions now correctly display on hover