I love it when bloggers get on a ‘hot streak’ with their blogs and write multiple link worthy posts in a short period of time. Rachel’s blog is hot right now in my opinion (I seem to be linking to her a lot) and today she’s written an interesting post on Improving the readability of large numbers of comments which is full of ideas, plugins and suggestions to consider to improve the functionality of your comments section (especially if it’s pretty active). You wouldn’t want to implement all 10 of her suggestions but there are some great suggestions there. Here’s her headings (with more written under each point):
- Highlight your (own) comments
- Provide visual cues
- Show what’s new
- Split things up
- Newest first
- Distinguish Trackbacks
- Rate comments
- Nested comments
- Editable comments
- Categorise comments
