It used to be that:
- if you were an active member,
- but your login had expired,
- and you visited a paywalled Article or Tip,
- you then had to login,
- but you were returned to your Account page and then had to find your way back to the Article.
Super irritating!
To fix this I have added a login form that appears on the Article, so you can log in without leaving, and as soon as you do the whole Article appears.
Much better!
If you notice any other irritations like this, please leave a comment below. I’m knocking them down one by one.
Hello John, this is not an irritation but a suggestion. Is it possible to see all the comments of a member? Since we can subscribe to the comments of someone may be it would nice to see his/her previous comments as well?
Hi Yigit,
This comes up from time to time, and while it’s theoretically possible it would be a lot of coding and also a potential performance hit because we would need to index the comments for search. No point in just giving users a list of comments with no search. Also, making sure the comment is within context of the thread it’s part off is a huge design challenge. And how would one interact with an isolated comment?
So probably not happening in that I have a huge number of projects in the hopper that would add more to the site for less time and effort. The other issue is that AAC is not a forum, and will never be—as my niece is want to say when faced with a horrible alternative “shoot me now”—but this might encourage forum type usage, so maybe not even desirable.
The point being that comments are discussion on a specific article moderated by the author, kind of like meeting with a chairman. Forums tend to be free for all and not anchored to a subject. The difference is a lot of why the discussion stays civilized around here. Or to put it another way, things tend to go off the rails, and off topic, and a lot of my time gets wasted saying the same thing over and over again, when the discussion gets separated from the original article.