Comments in Activity Stream don't link to Comments in blogs Problem
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I have this Buddypress settings enabled
Blog & Forum Comments – Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum postsDoes any of these plugins help ?
wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-recent-comments/
wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-recent-comments
wordpress.org/plugins/get-all-comments-widget/
ThanksThe commenting in activity option not only doesn’t change the link to the comments to where the comment is in the original blog post.
Comments are of ‘discussion’ AND often the comment being replied to is part of a long discussion which you might want to familiarize yourself with before replying to a comment to. Each of my pages averages 50 comments AND every 5th comment is sometimes equivalent of one or more A4 pages in length (we have proper discussions).
None of those plugins listed add in a correct link to the BP Activity stream (which was the point of making this ‘request’). I use these or other plugins to have a COMMENTS page listing say the most recent 100 comments on each blog site so that people at least have some chance of finding their own activity comment on a blog because it’s currently impossible to do this from the activity stream.
A link from each comment in the activity stream to the actual comment in a post should be a ‘no brainer’ . . . is there some reason as to why BP is made severely handicapped by not including the comment link?
If that be the case, may be the most appropriate thing will be to post your problem here : https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Mention the WP, BP versions you use, your theme, settings etc
Steps to reproduce your problem
Any site where this problem can be see / testedThanks.
PS : Submitting your problem in the above link may or may not generate any corrective response, in that case maybe you have too look more around the net unless some mods/devs here get you the actual help or actual code.
OK, I’ll do that Rosy, thanks
Comments are of ‘discussion’ AND often the comment being replied to is part of a long discussion which you might want to familiarize yourself with before replying to a comment to. Each of my pages averages 50 comments AND every 5th comment is sometimes equivalent of one or more A4 pages in length (we have proper discussions).
That is great indeed. What is your site? Typical social nets have small comments these days which is unfortunate ( courtesy FB and Twitter)
However, Buddypress stream does show full comments ( read more etc) and ‘show all comments’ etc so all comments can be read in the stream itself – I think it works that way for me. Is it different for you ? Then there are the Activity filters like ‘Show all’ ‘Show comments only’ etc which are of some help I guess.Replies to my replies or Replies to my post is something not in the Activity filter – I think, but would have been nice to have.
Thanks
Hi Rosy, it’s a private invite site discussing aspects of the make up of reality although I’ve some public sites which don’t attract the same comment enthusiasm because it’s a very specialist area. Discussions of earth as a simulation: public discussions are here: http://www.soul-healer.com/simulation-argument/
It works the same way for me – you only get about 4 lines of the comment in the AS. I think only for Activity Updates there is a ‘More’ link. So, basically with BP you cannot read all of the comment in the AS AND you cannot actually easily find the comment on the original pages either. With a tabbed side bar setup you can list most recent comments and clicking on those will take you to your page comment BUT it’s only feasible to list the last 30 comments or so in the sidebar.
Yea, I’ve managed to avoid FB and the Twitter things. Those are not for ‘focused, inquiring’ decent ‘comprehensive’ discussions.
Basically, if you are suspicious then you’d notice that ‘reality’ doesn’t like focused ‘serious’ discussions it’s likes twittering and in the moment passing remarks – it’s helps greatly to stop people figuring out fundamentals about reality . . . haha
@clivoo I may not have followed the issue correctly but comments made in a post get synced to activity stream, they get placed as a comment under the the activity entry for that post and the activity entry for that comment does link directly to the post comment using the page anchor principle /#comment-one
works the same way for me – you only get about 4 lines of the comment in the AS. I think only for Activity Updates there is a ‘More’ link.
True – I missed that. Long comments are truncated with […] at the end and that does not link to the original comment. W.r.t usability that is a critical bug for me. Thanks
activity entry for that comment does link directly to the post comment using the page anchor
It does not – default install of WP,BP latest versions, default theme – it does not for me. Any demo link with latest WP and BP that does this? Thanks
WAIT : […] does not link to, there is no ‘more’ link that does this BUT the time stamp does this. So I think UI and Userfriendiless tea should link […] to the same link as the time-stamp. Most users are accustomed with ‘more’ or ‘…’ – they won’t know they have to click time-stamp. Please submit an enhancement request. Thanks
activity entry for that comment does link directly to the post comment using the page anchor principle /#comment-one
It doesn’t do that for me either . . .
@clivoo read WAIT above – please test. Modify your ticket accordingly if needed. Thanks
Plus activity comments and post comments should have the same behavior – if one can be read in the stream the other should also be readable in the stream apart from a link to the actual page position
AHH I see what you mean – that is completely unintuitive, none of the people in my site have ever spotted this . . .
>BUT the time stamp does this
Exactly! So the issue is not that it doesn’t link to but that it could link to better! If the read more link doesn’t link to the comment maybe that could be raised as an issue to be addressed.
I’ve modified the ticket there Hugo making the problem clear and that it’s an ‘enhancement’ rather than a bug . . .
SWA shows all site activities.
All are reachable by the time stamp. Why should it be differently for post comments ?The read more sign[…] is used for excerpts. But is the excerpt an activity or only a way to not show long post, which IS the real activity (in this case) ?
In regard of the SWA logic, you acces to the post by timestamp, like you access to the other mentionned activities.
Having done a survey on my site only one person was aware that the activity items were linked in this way, one other person remembers he did find this then forgot about it AND then started copying the starting text and using ctrl-F to find the comment on the post itself (which is what I and others on that site have been doing).
So, these links to the item are utterly and completely obscure and unintuitive to a point where even if you do find this you actually forget about it.
I’ve been running sites for decades and WP since the early versions and I missed this . . .
Should we take this as the STANDARD of the BP software – that something seriously important for some sites is so obscure, hidden and unintuitive that only one person on a site that has been active for 5/6 years noticed this linking method? Seriously!! This is how bad this is.
So, PLEASE . . . can an obvious ‘ . . READ More . . . OR . . Read on the post . . ‘ link be added to the end of the comment TEXT part itself (and to other Activity items that have the same invisible, unintuitive and ‘hidden’ link) rather then having it obscured as part of the ‘comment was posted xxxx time’ text above the comment.
Thank you . . .
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Clive Hetherington
@clivoo
9 years, 8 months ago
I’ve been using BP with WP on two installs through all versions for about 5 years.
In the BP activity stream we have comments from all posts and pages BUT the actual comment in the activity stream itself is not linked to the actual comment on the original post and page.
I’ve some posts and pages with 100’s of comments so just having a link to the actual page is pretty much a waste of time as it can take ages to find your comment on the page.
Would it be possible in some future release to actually include a link to the actual comment in the activity stream?
It would also be useful to have an option in the profile area to list the comment ‘replies’ to your own comments. This list would give you an immediate idea of what has been replied to of your own comments as opposed to no idea at all.
I ask for this because despite only having about 5 sites active in my MS / BP install it’s still pretty much impossible to keep track of your comments and others replies to them unless you login everyday.