User blog:Najevi/My wish list for blogs at Wikia

In no particular priority order:


 * Preview for comments: this will improve the quality of comments left by users and it will avoid the premature reaction to any inflammatory comment (comments currently need to be posted before they can be reviewed and edited by the author of the comment)

@najevi - have you tried ...
 * Put the avatar (or the timestamp) to work as a useful link: both the avatar and the user name link to the user's page. Rather than this redundancy suppose the avatar (or the timestamp if the avatar is ever defeatured) provided a link to the current comment's page. Currently the only way to easily get to that page is to tediously search Special:RecentChanges for the comment's time stamp and copy the link from there. (When it is your own comment you have access to the history link right beside the comment.) Having this link handy beside each comment would allow users responding to another user's comment via such methods as
 * be more specific about which comment (from among pages of comments) is being referred to


 * Most recent comment at top: ahh ... thank you for this!


 * Include the central blog space in forum search results: At central.wikia.com so long as Wikia have adopted the policy that Wikia announcements be made via staff blogs rather than via forum topics then those sometimes important announcements risk being missed by users searching for answers at the traditional venue.


 * More bytes consumed by the avatar than the comment: I am not a fan of eye-candy but I can appreciate that others do enjoy the display of some unique icon against their name. The sad fact remains that every visitor to a blog page downloads user avatars which consume more data bandwidth than the comment (and even the several comments by the one user in many cases!) It's a trivial matter to users whose ISP charges a flat rate for internet connectivity but there are less densely populated countries on the planet where ISP's either charge by the MB/GB or shape your broadband bandwidth after exceeding some arbitrary data down/up-load threshold.


 * Date and time of original post: Although every comment bears a time-stamp the original blog post does not (unless the poster signed it like they do/should a forum post). Curious! (case in point is this blog)


 * Comment count is not updating: At Blog:Wikia_Staff_Blog the number of comments does not seem to update until a new blog is added to the list (or presumably any other edit takes place at Blog:Wikia_Staff_Blog). A small detail that may lead to confusion.