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... or at least the installations of such that I've come across...
With LJ, comments are a (more-or-less) useful way to have a conversation... they're threaded, you can (when things are working) get notifications of new replies to comments you've left, and so on.
With the other blogs that I've come across - MT, whatever powers blogspot (Blogger and Haloscan, it seems), and others - leaving a comment and reading comments are almost exactly the same as each other - a small (too small) window pops up with all the comments that've already been left, all left justified, one after the other, no indication of who's replying to who. When you want to leave a comment, most require an email address. Do they DO anything with this information? No. Do they send you mail saying "someone's left a new comment [they can't say "in reply to something you said", as there's no threading] on a post you showed enough interest in to contribute a comment to"? No.
In short, is there any way to see if someone's replied to (or near) you? No.
Pain in the ass crapular design.
LJ has its issues, yes. For the reasons above, though, it continues to be MUCH more usable for me.
It's also free and open-source... I gather some of the others are moving away from that?
With LJ, comments are a (more-or-less) useful way to have a conversation... they're threaded, you can (when things are working) get notifications of new replies to comments you've left, and so on.
With the other blogs that I've come across - MT, whatever powers blogspot (Blogger and Haloscan, it seems), and others - leaving a comment and reading comments are almost exactly the same as each other - a small (too small) window pops up with all the comments that've already been left, all left justified, one after the other, no indication of who's replying to who. When you want to leave a comment, most require an email address. Do they DO anything with this information? No. Do they send you mail saying "someone's left a new comment [they can't say "in reply to something you said", as there's no threading] on a post you showed enough interest in to contribute a comment to"? No.
In short, is there any way to see if someone's replied to (or near) you? No.
Pain in the ass crapular design.
LJ has its issues, yes. For the reasons above, though, it continues to be MUCH more usable for me.
It's also free and open-source... I gather some of the others are moving away from that?
