Guus Bosman

Last week уе have been testing with the trial version of the new site. Jaap, Jean-Paul, Jerry, Mieke and Rob have found a couple of problems and suggestions for improvements.

Here's is what they found:

1. Bug: the Recent Comment block doesn't show an author.
2. Bug: The order of the comments looks strange. "I don't get the order of the comments. As I watch this news item, the comments don't look ordered by date. Do they? Should they?".
3. Feature request: Use a default image for users that don't have an image & anonymous users.
4. Feature request: perhaps it's useful to be able to delete your own comments.
5. Bug: The signature (for comments) doesn't really work nice: you always have to "move it aside" before you can start typing a comment. The cursor isn't placed on a useful place.
6. Feature request: It would be nice if the signature is visually separated from the comment by a line or something.
7. Bug: Preview doesn't show HTML code.

I've started testing a new version of this website. One of the testers commented on the Recent Comments block.


Unlike the current site's Recent Comments block (for PHP Nuke), the new site didn't display the author of each comment in the list with recent comments. I didn't like that either so I fixed it.

Tonight I've also made this change available to other users of Drupal with a patch. The source code of Drupal is much, much nicer than the PHP Nuke's code and I'm glad I'm finally making the move to a modern system.

Download the patch for Drupal 5.1 to add comment author names to the recent comments block.