Comments on: coComment Extension Update Sucks

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Using RSS for Comment Followup » Another Blogger — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:40:49 +0000

[...] such as coComment. I found that I either failed to follow up (bookmarks) or ran into flaky technical issues with services (coComment). As I’ve moved more and more of my information-gathering into RSS [...]

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:04:46 +0000

Have you seen there is an update for the extension? The previous behaviour of taking you to your conversations page when normal-clicking on it has been restored.

To access coComment functionalities (like meta conversation or comment tracking), however, you need to click on the toolbar icon or use the bookmarklet.

I’ve suggested that the coComment functionalities be accessible through a right-click menu item on the status icon (in place of Your Conversations, for example) or simply by a contextual menu (right-click anywhere on the page).

We’ll see what happens!

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:03:09 +0000

Makes sense. Passing your feedback along. Thanks!

By: ahockley

ahockley — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:56:59 +0000

I would have left the single-click option as-is, and added those features as right-click submenu options. I’m guessing folks probably want to be notifed about new comments and view them a lot more often than they want to track pages that they haven’t participated in…

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:17:48 +0000

How would you have organised things?

We kept the single click for the tracking/commenting options, allowing you to track conversations you’re not participating in easily or letting you add comments to pages which do not have comments (or view such existing conversations).