Starting today you might notice something different in the comments of the blog. We’ve created a plugin for WordPress that allows our blog authors to reply directly to a comment and have that reply appear next to the original comment. This should minimize many of the “@username” responses in our comments.
Currently, this feature is only available to the blog authors (you’re used to seeing their responses in red). We’ve debated opening up the option to everybody (and we may still), however, the question we always ask is, “Are we trying to replicate too many forum functions?” The other fear is that threaded comments would turn into this:
As for you WordPress geeks out there, we plan on releasing this plugin along with one other very soon. More on that in a bit.
Definately don’t open this up to the public. The blog would get way too browded. You bould get off-topic arguments flowing easily and so being able to take up alot of space and it would be a serious pain to look through the comments. Keep it restricted to authors and you, of course, and it will flow much easier and would certainly turn out more user-friendly.
Wonder what that “one other plugin” will be o_O
I would like to see as much integration to the Playstation Forums as posible, possibly being able to fully combine your accounts. Would be great if the accounts were fully liked, but maybe just having different handles for the forums and the blog instead. However and whatever is done, I would love to see this happen.
btw, how good are you on the drums at Rock Band? I can do Hard for the vast majority and Expert on most.
I agree with the other posters that say don’t open it to the public. It would get to cluttered and harder to read and this is supposed to be semi-professional :P
–Add the ability to find [u]”blog authors” [/u] easier to see responses quicker
–Add the ability to ignore [b]spam posters[/b]
–Add the ability to [b]spell check[/b] before posting (yes I make mistakes and rather catch them before the post happens
–Not a strong bullet point but an [b]quick edit[/b] option would be nice as to not have to double post in order to rephrase what you mistakingly typed incorrectly
That’s pretty much all I can think of right now but if i come up with more I will post it.
Thanks,
GamerMan76
Jeff: it works now hehe!
@46 –I have Jeff on my PSN list too–LOL we should all meet up in Resistance—I finally made 4-star general woo hoo! (don’t laugh–I took a LONG break from Resistance when I made 3 star and now just picked it back up—had it since launch LOL!)
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@51 FYI: I mentioned in one of my previous posts my team is redoing our site to be wordpress—-we thought of trying a similar idea to what you are suggesting (combining the WordPress commenting login with a forum login)—when my guy looked into it he said it creates some nasty loopholes hackers can exploit to cause havoc—-so it is doable but I bet that is why SCEA isn’t doing it—sucks when you have to plan around the deviant people out there :-(
So, Jeff, I know I sound like a broken record, but can you PLEASE tell us an ETA for an in-game XMB announcement? At the least could you get Eric Lempell here to discuss the possibilities of getting it any time soon? It’s been over a year since I’ve been wanting in-game XMB, and all you guys have been saying is “We’re listening.” :(
Nice feature! You guys should swap places with the people who are working on PS3 since it seems they’re doing absolutely nothing. (In game XMB should have been there from the start, where is Home? Why does Japan get all the good stuff? Where is our GT5 Prologue Demo? etc…)
Awesome addition, and as a word press user I am extremely happy that you are releasing this to the world… Will it be free of charge?
@54-oh, that stinks. It would be awsome if it would happen, but I didn’t know that. Maybe SCEA could work to plug the loopholes, but maybe it just isn’t currently possible. Oh well, it certainly would have been nice.
Make um blue instead of red.
Jeff any thoughts on my idea about having a button or something that links to the post you are replying to/ talking about?
I think it\’s a decent idea, but it goes to the back of the queue. We\’ve got – by my calculations – close to half a dozen other improvements being worked on currently.
Thanks for the feedback though, and please keep it coming. If enough people want this (or other features), well that\’s how we get things done.