And you can help by spreading the word: mentioning these stories to friends among our community of site users, linking to these stories in your community Groups as a heads-up, republishing these stories to your active Groups for visibility among your membership, and encouraging community members to participate in the beta testing.
Thus far we have discussed the need to know your login credentials (all users will have to log in at the new site when we launch), the need for you to act now to preserve what can not be migrated, changes to community moderation, (Tip Jars, Mojo, Trusted User Status, reporting), and changes to community Groups features and functionality. iterology has also provided an important timeline of the migration process and updated the site banner on the Front Page to alert users that the site will be down starting on April 14.
Today we’re providing a look at the basic aspects of commenting on the new site, both to assist users experimenting on the beta site and to give non-beta testers a sense of what commenting will look like and how it will work on the new site starting next Wednesday, April 15.
THIS STORY COVERS JUST THE BASICS OF COMMENTING AT THE BETA SITE AND AT THE NEW SITE: HOW TO COMMENT; HOW TO ADD AN IMAGE TO A COMMENT; HOW TO EDIT A COMMENT; SHARING OPTIONS FOR COMMENTS; HOW TO REPLY TO A COMMENT
The comment section is located below the story, and the Comment Editor in which you compose a comment is located at the top of the comment section. If you are logged into your Daily Kos account, you will see the prompt "Join the conversation, [your username]".
[Note: if you are not logged in, you will see the prompt "Join the conversation" and after entering text and clicking POST you will be prompted to log in]
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Clicking in the Comment Editor box will activate the Comment Editor, which will expand to show the Add Image icon (lower left) and an active CANCEL button (lower right).
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- ADD COMMENT (with text only)
Compose your text (no text formatting is available) and click the POST button. Your comment will appear at the top of the comment section if the section is sorted by Newest (a user-defined preference, with Newest being the default).
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Compose your text if you wish, then click the Add Image icon (lower left). That will open the Finder on your local device. Navigate in the Finder to the image file stored on your local device, and click the Open button to add it into the Comment Editor. You are required to enter Alt Text in the clickable field below the image (shown below). There is a limit of one image per comment, and that image will be located at the bottom of the comment.
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Once Alt Text is entered, click the now activated POST button and your comment will appear at the top of the comment section if the section is sorted by Newest (a user-defined preference, with Newest being the default).
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Commenters have a five-minute period from publishing a comment in which to edit the comment for typos or errors. Clicking the three-dot menu icon at the far upper right of a published comment will display the edit button, with countdown clock. The three-dot menu icon is not displayed if the comment is more than five minutes old.
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Clicking the edit button will allow you to edit and POST the comment, which will then be displayed with the EDITED notation at the end of the comment.
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The SHARE button is located at the far lower right of a published comment. Clicking the SHARE button opens a menu to select sharing to Facebook, to X, to email, or by copying the comment URL.
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To reply to an existing comment, click the REPLY button at the lower left of the comment to open a Comment Editor window with an "Add your reply" prompt.
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Proceed as above, composing your comment with text and/or image, and clicking the POST button to publish your reply.
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The thin gray line on the left indicates a reply thread. Clicking the orange "Reply to [username] - view message" hyperlink will open a pop-up highlighting the replied comment and the reply within the thread.
A version of this information is also available at the Knowledge Base.
Next up: your notification bell and tray, where you’ll find replies to your comments and other goodies.
P.S.: for those of you may yet participate in beta testing between now and next Monday, April 13, please note that use of the beta site involves creating a new account for use ONLY at the beta site, and that account (and associated content and Groups) will exist ONLY for the duration of the beta testing. The username, email address of record, and password for an account on the beta site are independent from your existing account here, and beta accounts will not be migrated to the new version of the site.
