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"Next Page" comment links not working

Say for example, http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4535#comment-73053, it loads the first page, and can't jump to the comment because its on the second page.

By Sean McDirmid at 2012-10-19 02:47 | Site Discussion | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 7183 reads

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When I complained about this

When I complained about this a few years ago, I was told (paraphrasing): if you're at the comment limit, it's probably time to stop commenting; LtU is not a discussion forum.

Yet, I also believe this is an unnecessary annoyance.

By dmbarbour at Fri, 2012-10-19 03:36 | login or register to post comments

I actually think it is an

I actually think it is an annoying bug. Does anyone know if newer versions of drupal fixed this? Remember that though we are all hackers here (or pretend to be), LtU is pretty much a vanilla drupal site and we plan on keeping it that way for the foreseeable future unless someone has the time to donate.

By Ehud Lamm at Fri, 2012-10-19 11:58 | login or register to post comments

It's a good way to fix the ever-narrowing post problem.

If you can figure out how to jump to comments on a second page (etc) then shorter pages (say, 20 posts) would be a very good solution to the ever-narrowing post usability problem we encounter when quoting.

Ray

By Ray Dillinger at Sat, 2012-10-20 22:11 | login or register to post comments

It's easy to widen the posts

It's easy to widen the posts at the margin. Just use a `pre` block with a bunch of space. But it would probably be better to hide the deeply threaded comments and break those into separate links (because, by the time they're deeply threaded, they tend to be far off topic).

I know nothing about Drupal. I know as much as I want to know about Drupal. So I can't say how hard these things are. But I would guess that an easy fix to the "next page" issue would probably be to remove the limit.

By dmbarbour at Sat, 2012-10-20 22:33 | login or register to post comments

How many language hackers

How many language hackers does it take to fix a bug in drupal? Zero, they are satisfied with explaining why you should use a cms built in haskell instead :-)

By Ehud Lamm at Sun, 2012-10-21 16:56 | login or register to post comments

How about PG's hackernews

How about PG's hackernews code written in....Lisp.

By Sean McDirmid at Sun, 2012-10-21 23:24 | login or register to post comments

How many language hackers

How many language hackers does it take to fix a bug in drupal? Zero, they are satisfied with debating which esoteric language the CMOS should be written in.

I think this version is much closer to the truth. Thanks.

By Ehud Lamm at Tue, 2012-10-23 07:48 | login or register to post comments

I think that's about right.

I think that's about right. I know nothing about this area, or really much about web systems, so its not so much lack of interest but just general lacking of knowning "how would I fix that?"

By Sean McDirmid at Tue, 2012-10-23 11:49 | login or register to post comments

The main fix I want...

...is MathJax support. Luckily, MathJax has a CDN that makes supporting it very, very easy. (I use it to support math on my blog.) All you need to do is to adjust the site template to emit the following code. 

<script type="text/javascript" 
        src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
</script>

Ideally, it should come in the <head> block, but it can go in the body, as well, if that's easier.

By neelk at Thu, 2012-10-25 08:09 | login or register to post comments