Some changes at interest.co.nz

We have rolled out an upgrade to our content management system

18th Apr 15, 8:16am by David Chaston

Regular readers will notice some changes to the interest.co.nz service today.

Overnight we rolled out a major upgrade to our content management system (CMS) engine.

We have been working on this for a long time and while it has been subject to a huge amount of checking, there will inevitably be a number of issues that aren't revealed until it is 'live'.

If they cause you frustration, we apologise.

Further work is also required to tune it to regain the high optimistation we had with the old version. User experience may seem degraded now but our new CMS opens up the opportunity to tune our service to a higher, faster level. We are working on those tuneups, but they won't be obvious for a while yet (hopefully rolled out progressively over the next month or so).

We want reader feedback on anything you notice. Readers use our service in many unique ways and it is entirely possible we have missed something you think is 'obvious'.

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david (dot) chaston @ interest (dot) co (dot) nz.

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14 Comments

by pouggey | 18th Apr 15, 1:49pm 1429321754

May I make a comment about these changes...
1. The dates (in the comments) are the wrong way around
2. "0 users have voted" is unnecessary and takes up too much space - the simple number we had before was sufficient
3. The recent comments box on the right has disappeared - I really miss that
4. Longer threads divided up into separate pages. Makes it harder (impossible actually) to quickly scroll down to check for "new" comments
5. The line "Posted in..." below the title still a bit of a shambles. I thought THAT would have been fixed!

by cowboy | 18th Apr 15, 2:58pm 1429325926

less noise is more information.

The "users have voted" is rubbish, irrelevant, and is just more page noise. dump it.

agree dates format is broken, this is still NZ, TPPA isn't signed so we aren't a state of the US (yet).

by admin | 18th Apr 15, 3:37pm 1429328230

Date now fixed, thanks pouggey! We'll address your other comments ASAP.

by admin | 18th Apr 15, 4:34pm 1429331676

Threading fixed, we now display up to 300 comments per page.

Unsure about the "recent comments box", I think I see that OK both on the front page and this page, will have to check!

by pouggey | 18th Apr 15, 5:09pm 1429333783

Thanks for fixing that :)
I see a "comment stream" box on the right but it's empty. Clicking on another tab in that box doesn't seem to do anything...

by admin | 18th Apr 15, 4:49pm 1429332593

The "line posted in" was probably only incorrect if you happen to use large fonts (Chrome setting), and were using Chrome? Should be better now too.

by pouggey | 18th Apr 15, 5:19pm 1429334382

I'm using Safari on Mac. I'll try to copy-and-paste the line here:

Posted in News April 18, 2015 - 08:16am, David Chaston
Tweet

Hm... on my screen it ends in "Tw" and then a couple of boxes (the second one with a "0" in it). So the "Tw" should be "Tweet" then :)
Zooming in or out doesn't fix it...
It's the same in Firefox on Mac. I don't use Chrome...

by pouggey | 18th Apr 15, 5:46pm 1429336014

The comments stream does appear in Firefox. So must be a setting in Safari - but why has it changed?

by skudiv | 18th Apr 15, 6:51pm 1429339876

My clipboard can now interact with the comment box which is great. If I wanted to copy and paste I used to have to open chrome, which I hate.

Still no option for downvoting, but I can still hope.

# users have voted is worse then the old counter

Spellchecker is great! Now my spelling can get woser.

by skudiv | 19th Apr 15, 8:26am 1429388771

Pictures haven't been showing in my browser.

by skudiv | 19th Apr 15, 9:17am 1429391863

Clicking a link takes 2 clicks instead of the usual one click.

by KH | 21st Apr 15, 5:37am 1429551466

Yankee spellcheck. ?. Not a new issue.

by Kumbel | 21st Apr 15, 7:12am 1429557132

Have we lost email notification of follow-up comments?

by Alter Ego | 21st Apr 15, 10:52am 1429570324

I.C.NZ

Full of "past comments' repeatedly showing as "Recent Comments' is this back to 2009/2010 or what?.

Will Bernard be right, will he be wrong...Where is Christov, where is Wolly, where are all the others???

Answers please. ....

Back to the Future....or what?...is this progress, I ask myself.

Can we have the good old days back, when everything worked as planned and I knew my way around the system.?...Is Firefox the issue, is it something I said....??