Andrew's dashboard

I checked some 2006 and 2007 posts, and had clean loads so far. Looking good right now. Thanks, and thanks to the engineering team.

Hi all,

I've been doing some digging back to August 2006. This post

http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennis...

may shed some light on the "zero comments" issue. I've notified Pete, Rosangel, Dominic and miz_ginevra offline on what I found, but it's possible that there's another issue at work here, not a Typepad engineering problem.

I spoke with Pete earlier this evening. He appreciates the work Typepad is doing to help us with these issues, as do I.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the response. I was the original poser of the question, and I'm one of a small group of people given moderation and posting rights at the site.

Yes, either of those two options would be preferable to the recent change in the functioning of the site.

There are several blogs maintained by Tennis.com using TypePad software. The most popular blog, Peter Bodo's TennisWorld, is the electronic meeting place for a large community of tennis enthusiasts across the world. Upwards of 50 people regularly add comments to the blog, and possibly 200 or more are occasional posters.

During tennis tournaments, a very popular activity on the site is match commentating - posters may exchange many hundreds of posts in an important match. For the recent Wimbledon and Australian Open finals, nearly 3000 posts were recorded on a single match. Some of these posts are short, but it's possible to keep a conversation going, and posters may duck in and out.

The pagination function as implemented will make it impossible to maintain this activity. It also makes it harder to moderate, and to search for comments by a particular poster.

As an aside, it also now appears that posters can't display their email address as they could before. But that's not the main point of the request for help.

The comments features allow Urls to be posted, but not comments. Over time, we've found that page loading runs at acceptable speeds for up to 1000-1500 page comments. When this point is reached, a continuation thread is usually added.

So, either restoring the set up to where it was before (likely ideal, particularly if the email issue was resolved by the restored setup) or resetting the comments maximum to 1000 or 2000 comments would be a huge help. We very much appreciate the assistance.

Andrew

BTW, I understand that in some circumstances (for example if photos or images are in the comments) that pagination may be an attractive option. But in our case it genuinely will have a chilling effect on our community. Again, thanks for working constructively with us on this.