Yes, but just how many of these features do we really want to play with? I assume the "Votes" button is really a "Like/Dislike" feature? If so, is it (logically) intended to be a different sort of thing than that "Thanks" link? In time, I think we'll get used to this, though.

Okay, I do have a complaint. It seems that the "Up/Down" buttons for individual comments in a thread have the (what I assume to be unintended) consequence of moving comments up or down the thread, thus destroying the (chronological) order in when they are posted. This will make it VERY DIFFICULT, if not next to impossible, to track the comments in a thread with more than a few posts.

My "Vote" for this feature is a decided "DOWN" vote.

If the votes have any effect of moving coments around, I don't think we'll want that.

I think these blue boxes are ugly and disturbing to look at.

OK, I've put in a little code mod to make the default sort "Date added"; thanks to CHG for pointing that out.

To chonak ... but I hope others read this, too.

Richard, although I'm probably one of the squeakier wheels with forum layout and appearance issues, I want to thank you for your hopefully patient but surely at time frustrating attention to the issues of how the forum appears, what features it has, and the liberal help you have generously provided to newbies and regulars alike. As the manager of CPDL's ChoralWiki site for five years now, I appreciate your effort and commitment.

Hey, I kinda like this feature. OK, here are the boxes in green.

Ugh... now I see horrible minty boxes.

This whole feature is terrible.

Someone wake me when the nightmare is over.

Perhaps if the boxes were a pale straw colour they wouldn't contrast so much.

Though I do fear that too many shades of Green will make the forum look like the kitchen at my elementary school.

Also, can the chant manuscript in the background image be in Mode VI?

And could I have a selector so that I could toggle it to standard 5-line notation?

Thanks for the rounded corners. I think, like others, that the new boxes should get smaller and smaller the more people have clicked on them, until finally they go away.

Matthew, just use your pad instead of PC, the boxes will then disappear.
But dead people will appear in their place. So then you'll prolly say "I see dead people."

One of the things that is COMPLETELY RUINED for me is that I have to look beyond all those egregious and variously-colored boxes in order to see whether there are "new" comments. Can this information be moved to the left?

Also, whatever happened to fuschia? (Less urgent)

What's the difference between thanking and an up arrow?

The voting system gives people one more way of giving favorable and critical feedback, just as you're doing now.

Hahahaha

Okay- so: Other than my (very serious) comments above, I try not to voice too many opinions about all this. (@chonak, as you know- users annoy me too).

But, one thing you had for a minute, which then went away, I thought was good:
There was, in the last few days, a badge (or whatever) that showed how many views each thread had gotten.

One of them ("Stage of Life") had over 1,200. Whoa.

It gave me pause to think about what I was saying- in that thread and generally.
I already knew the (rough) statistics about how many people visit this site, so it's not like it was exactly a surprise. But, since about 2 dozen people make 99% of the posts here (and ten of us, probably 98%) it's easy to forget just how public (and well trafficked) this site is.

Perhaps (perhaps) restoring that feature might give us all a little perspective.

(As always, especially on dev matters: just my opinion.)

I just think the voting feature is dumb. On youtube, the highest-voted comment is regularly the one with the most racial slurs. On chant cafe, Todd could comment "We must follow the lead of our most holy father emeritus, Benedict XVI, may God grant him long life, and restore the chanted propers and the Mass of All Time," and he'd still get voted down to -12.

It's a popularity contest.

It's a popularity contest.

Or a hackathon.

Do you really want to spend your time doing that?

Do you really want to spend your time doing that?

Not normally. But, you know- just once....

If you don't want to use it, ignore it. If you want a quick way to say "this posting is inappropriate/contrary to etiquette, etc,", now you have it.

I still find these rounded boxes very distracting... my eyes are always drawn to them.

Was it voting in 19th Century Russia?
It was not.

(C'mon people, say it with me....)

New calendarist Sergianists. Is outrage!