My good friend Jonas has written a new WordPress “Recent Comments” type plugin, with a twist. Your Comments presents the latest comments to weblog posts, from your perspective. Incidentally, this is very close to what I was asking for in my recent article on keeping old stuff fresh. I’m going to try out the plugin, but with a different design. Update: See frontpage.
This is a great and simple idea. Of course it would be great if it could properly use a ‘last visit cookie’, but I’ve hardly ever seen that done in a way which actually works.
That said, I’m unsure just how the names of the commenters listed works. Since there are comments since my last comment, why am I listed first? That gives me an indication that I am the last?…
I’d also love a direct link to the first comment after my last comment.
I’m going to have to nick parts of this
It is a good idea, yes.
I have submitted a slight bug report to Jonas already, describing what you echo with the names and such. I’ve also added the request to actually see part of each persons comment, just like Flickr. Let’s see how that would work.