It's been a while since we shared a Slashgeo
tip of the day. There's two main ways to share comments on Slashgeo: (a) replying on the "root" of the story by selecting the "Reply" button on the right-hand side below the story summary, and (b) replying to a specific user comment by selecting the "Reply to This" link immediately after the said comment. Why is the distinction important? For several reasons and I'll give you two: (1) if you reply to another user's comment instead of the root, that user will receive a notification that you replied and will be able to share more experience, opinion and information, and (2), when replying directly to a user comment, the comments threads will stick together.
Related to the comment and story interactions mechanism,
Slashdot now uses
AJAX for the display and interaction with their story pages. Their code has not been pushed to
Slashcode (Slashgeo's open source engine). One significant improvement to Slashgeo, in our long to-do list, will be using this AJAX code since is will circumvent the requirement to reload full html pages. Nobody likes waiting for pages to reload! :-) We can't however provide a deadline since this code implementation is mainly in their hands.
For your curiosity, despite theoretically being in
slow geonews publishing mode and thanks to our expanding team of Slashgeo "editors", I'm happy to report we're now at 7,000 direct unique visitors daily, a number which slowly climbs. This is important since we're all volunteers here trying to provide a useful and ad-free tool for the geospatial community we're part of. Cheers!