This postI’ve added the new LibraryThing search widget to my increasingly unruly sidebar. :) (One of these days I’m going to redesign my WordPress theme so the sidebar isn’t so long…)
Anyway, I have a question for y’all. When you come to the site to see what comments have been made, do you go directly to the post you’re interested in? Do you look at the Recent Comments in the sidebar? Are you subscribed to the comments feed?
I ask because the Recent Comments in the sidebar only shows the last seven comments, and when I get backlogged on replying to comments and then reply to them all at once (as I’m about to do), suddenly the whole thing fills up with me. And then it’s hard to see where the discussion’s been. At least that’s what I think; what thinketh ye?
The tentative solution I’m considering, provided that this actually is an issue (however slight :)) and not just a figment of my imagination, is to add a “More comments…” link underneath the Recent Comments in the sidebar and have that go to a comments page which lists the last 30-50 comments. Would that be useful?
While I’m at it, are there any other things that would make the blog more user-friendly? Is it easy to find what you’re looking for? If it’s not, what gets in your way? What do you consider to be the most important parts of the sidebar? Recent comments? Categories? Flickr photos? :P
I have my own ideas, of course, but I practically live in this blog, so it’d be nice to get a fresh outsider’s perspective (from both those new to the blog and those who’ve been around for a while). Thanks! :)
