We’ve talked concerning the challenges we confronted selecting a commenting platform, and why we finally picked Viafoura regardless of it missing essential options. (Quick reply: the one actual various was Disqus, and it was lacking loads of issues folks would’ve justifiably complained about too.) The platform we selected, Viafoura, lacked visually indented threaded feedback—the type the place replies are nested beneath particular person feedback so conversations naturally department and are straightforward to observe at a look. As an alternative, every thing appeared in a principally flat stream, making it a lot more durable to trace facet conversations and observe who was responding to whom.
So quick ahead to the beta interval, and folks had been, understandably, hating the flat feedback. There was technically “nesting” within the construction, however not visually. Viafoura feedback famous who you had been responding to, and you can click on into “replies” to see a selected thread so as, however it was nonetheless a downgrade from having the ability to scan the web page and simply observe the varied subthreads of a dialog.
Lots of what occurs with feedback is exterior our management. It’s not our platform, and whereas Viafoura is contractually required to ship social media embeds by July, we’re nonetheless depending on their product roadmap for almost every thing else.
We did discover a number of hacks to work round some limitations, however I assumed we had been caught with flat feedback till beta tester Odysseas posted a screenshot of our Viafoura feedback superbly indented. Both he or a good friend (my recollection is hazy, and the beta web site is lengthy gone) had used Claude to put in writing a browser script that nested the feedback the best way the gods supposed.
Possibly my group would’ve figured it out finally on their very own, however they didn’t need to. The essential factor was realizing it was potential, and I instantly put it on the listing.
And right now, indented feedback are stay.
Now, there could possibly be unintended penalties from pushing the feedback system to do issues it wasn’t actually designed to do. For instance, we tried rising the variety of seen feedback earlier than customers needed to click on “extra feedback,” however that was incompatible with our customized script. We needed to shortly roll again that change. So hold a watch out for any funky conduct and tell us.
However it is a massive one for me. Of all of the bugs and annoyances we’ve handled, the dearth of indented feedback was the one inflicting me essentially the most anxiousness as a result of it basically modified how conversations felt on the location. We’re nonetheless squashing bugs and making enhancements, however this appears like a serious step ahead. Thanks, as at all times, to your persistence.
And in case you had been questioning: that is not the thriller shock I promised for tomorrow, the one everybody might be glad about. Keep tuned for that one.
The Present Work Checklist
- Thriller shock that you’ll all love (Sure, you’ll!)
- Caching fixes to enhance web site efficiency
- Making a community-only RSS feed
Latest fixes
- Nested/indented feedback (5/13/2026)
- You’ll be able to search by writer (5/13/2026)
- Take away daring styling from remark textual content on the user-profile Feedback web page (5/11/2026)
- Reorder user-profile tabs Tales, Feedback, Following, Followers, Recommends, Teams (5/11/2026)
- Add historical past of 100 most up-to-date feedback to person profiles (5/6/2026) — This might be expanded later
- Add Tags web page to see all accessible tags to observe/unfollow (5/6/2026)
- Add “Add Your Remark” button on the backside of lengthy remark scrolls (5/6/2026)
- Tons extra in Allison’s Friday replace
Coming quickly
- Improved story picture add course of
- Search filters
- Clicking on person avatar in feedback goes to foremost web site person profile (at the moment hyperlinks to Viafoura feedback profile)
- Tons of different minor fixes (our present listing has about three dozen precedence fixes on it)
As much as Viafoura
- Social media embeds in feedback (coming in July)
- Potential to see who advisable remark
- Announcement bell tray hyperlinks constantly touchdown the place they need to
- Feedback textual content formatting
- Hyperlinks in feedback
- Much less “noisy” bell notifications (Appears to be like like “likes” are now not clogging up the notifications)
- Present writer title in Trending Conversations widget
- “Sticky” choice for feedback ordering (latest, oldest, and many others)
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