Anthropologie
Interesting “walkthrough” metaphor at Anthropologie. You navigate through a room where everything’s for sale.
Threadless
Threadless adds some personality to the typically boring shopping-cart pattern.
Sad cart.
Happy cart.
Gawker
The Gawker network of sites moves to threaded comments (threads open with a click).
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Open.
Paul Smith
on 30 Sep 08The gawker threaded comments are very confusing. I was on there a couple days ago and when I clicked the plus I didn’t even know anything was happening. There isn’t any real visual cue that the replies are there, and that they are a reply to a comment. I do like the Threadless shopping cart image though.
Paul Smith
on 30 Sep 08Hmm, I went back and it does a slide effect down, but if there are more than about five comments once you scroll down it’s hard to figure out which ones are replies and which ones are comments. They should have indented them like engadget.com does it. It’s much easier to understand.
Benjy
on 30 Sep 08The Anthropologie thing reminds me of the original “Wheel of Fortune” format, where they’d spend their winnings on stuff from a room setting…
Nathan Youngman
on 30 Sep 08Interestingly, WordPress 2.7 will support threaded comments, so we should be seeing a lot more of that real-soon-now.
http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/
Douglas Greenshields
on 01 Oct 08I’d like to see an investigation into how many people actually read threaded comments. My guess: not many. It seems a spectacularly bad way of archiving readers’ contributions. Never a good way of taking a conversation forward. Can you imagine how confusing it would make this blog, for example?
well
on 01 Oct 08Cant find where on Anthropoligy your screen comes from (tried several times, bad usability or bad user)
Manuel Martensen
on 02 Oct 08@ Matt. Good that you added Closed and Open captions below the Gawker screenshots. Weird that they recieved SVN attention if they need those captions though.
Charles
on 03 Oct 08The only places where I’ve seen threaded comments work are Slashdot and Digg. Digg wins out by far IMO – it’s rating system is so much slicker than Slashdot’s.
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