Redesign update: changes to comments and search

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• RichS says:

  15 Sep15 September 14:41

  Looks good. Much easier to read comments now.

• EwanG says:

  15 Sep15 September 14:41

  Trying to look at an old article from 2019, I’m getting a ‘too many redirects’ error message in Chrome. Go to https://www.headforpoints.com/2019/03/31/ and the offending page is the Avis one. Other articles from that day work ok (and redirect to a newer article as appropriate). Any chance you can look at why the redirect is broken?

  +1 on the way the reply comments are now shaded, this is a big improvement.

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 15:08

    Sorry. We redirected a few old Avis / Avios promo articles to the latest one, but I think we ended up creating a circle by mistake! Will be fixed in five minutes.

    • EwanG says:

      15 Sep15 September 15:34

      Thanks Rob, not getting an error any more, however…. The original article had 28 comments and it was the content of the comments that I had originally bookmarked it, rather than the article. Is there any way to get back to the original, because clicking on the link for the original article takes you to the newer article with the newer (four) comments!

      • Rob says:

        15 Sep15 September 16:01

        No, unfortunately. It’s a hard redirect.

        We do this for SEO reasons because all of these articles have similar wording (they are basically clones of each other) and Google has no idea which is correct so it ignores them all. Instead we divert them all to the latest.

• Andy says:

  15 Sep15 September 14:56

  Well, since no one else is going to say it, thanks for listening to feedback and acting on it. Shading for HFP replies is a nice and subtle way to reinforce “authority comments”.

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 15:07

    Although that’s the reason I was not hugely keen on it, because the only thing you can be sure of in this game is that there is always someone out there who knows more than you on a particular topic. I absolutely don’t want to be seen as the ‘final word’ on any topic!

    • TGLoyalty says:

      15 Sep15 September 16:11

      But at least everyone knows its coming from a HfP team member.

      All in all now the comments are fixed everything looks great 🙂

      • Blenz101 says:

        15 Sep15 September 21:30

        Seconded! Fantastic improvements and much easier to follow what is being said.

    • Sundar says:

      15 Sep15 September 21:56

      Great feedback incorporation Rob !

• Peter K says:

  15 Sep15 September 16:06

  Thank you for the clearing cache advice. I could see no changes (apart from double Gravitars) until I did that. It’s great. Thank you!

• AJA says:

  15 Sep15 September 16:44

  Well done HfP team. I like these changes based on our collective feedback. It looks fab! It took me a while to work out how to clear cache on my mobile and I had very big avatars blocking the screen but all good now. I especially like the highlighted replies and the Reply button moved to the right. The only thing left from my point of vies is the return of the recent comments link but that is a nice to have rather than a must have.

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 17:09

    This will still happen – on article pages only – but requires a more fundamental bit of tech work first. At present we don’t have the control we want over the sidebar.

    • AJA says:

      15 Sep15 September 18:22

      That’s excellent news. Happy to wait though 🙂

    • Genghis says:

      15 Sep15 September 20:32

      Look forward to it. I like the changes made.

• Duncan says:

  15 Sep15 September 17:19

  This is such a welcome change, and I’m glad to see the return of the Gravatar. It definitely adds a bit more personality to the comments section. 💜

  • Char char says:

    15 Sep15 September 19:57

    Oh it’s the Tesla guy!

• Fenny says:

  15 Sep15 September 17:57

  Looking much better. Thanks for the updates.

• Anne says:

  15 Sep15 September 18:28

  Also very much liking the change to clearly show which comment page you are on. The previous iteration with counter intuitive underlining really screwed with my brain!! Thanks Rob and Rhys, I liked the redesign regardless but the changes today are all positive.

  • Max says:

    15 Sep15 September 20:44

    Seems to be something wrong with the way gravitars are displayed (iPhone Safari), I’m seeing two gravitars, one large, one small.

    • Peter K says:

      15 Sep15 September 20:54

      Clear your cache. I had the same problem on Android until I did it.

    • Anne says:

      15 Sep15 September 21:57

      Clearing today’s history in Safari sorted it on my iPad

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