Comic comments gone for good?

Protected

I'm wondering if the user comments view in the comic page (built on top of this forum, I believe) is gone for good (or am I just missing something?) I used to find that useful and it seems like an easy thing to have at the bottom of the current hybrid view with the comic+post+tycho/gabe comments (which I love by the way).

zerzhul

unknown at this time, but it is not currently integrated the way it was before.

MarcinMN

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the comment box under the comic the only way to generate a comment thread on the forum for each new comic? I was always under the impression that it was the only way since there is no "New Discussion" button in the Penny Arcade Hub section of the forum.

ATF_Griff

This is relevant to my interests.

dennis

I'm missing the comment threads as well. I dropped an @ to Buland on discord just to check in and see if this is on the to do list somewhere or what.

dennis

Buland's response:

Potentially still to do. It's going to be another big project to make the forums match up and fit seamlessly, not to mention work with mobile well (and in an iframe).

dennis

Might be nice if we had an interim forum for it, with user-created threads.

MarcinMN

dennis wrote: »

Might be nice if we had an interim forum for it, with user-created threads.

I wonder if they could just set up the Dog account to create a thread for each comic when it's published rather than when someone comments.

Or just give us one ongoing thread to use in the interim.

Brolo

MarcinMN wrote: »

dennis wrote: »

Might be nice if we had an interim forum for it, with user-created threads.

I wonder if they could just set up the Dog account to create a thread for each comic when it's published rather than when someone comments.

Or just give us one ongoing thread to use in the interim.

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/243474/webcomics-what-are-they-worth-to-you#latest

tee hee

DJ Eebs

We'll figure something out in the future, the new site architecture isn't fully compatible with the forums in the same way. We're looking into solutions, and we'll keep you posted!

dennis

DJ Eebs wrote: »

We'll figure something out in the future, the new site architecture isn't fully compatible with the forums in the same way. We're looking into solutions, and we'll keep you posted!

Personally, I don't really much care if the comments don't show up on the page. If anything, I'd lean towards them not showing up, as posters there tend to be the more drive-by type who don't read the other comments.

I'd just like to have a thread created automatically for each comic.

BahamutEos

I figure the forums don't have a ton of people posting any more but I liked the comic thread. I kinda get the same experience on the Facebook page though.

BahamutZERO

We used to discuss the PA comic in the general webcomics discussion thread in Social Entropy, then when it was decided to make the discussion threads for PA comics have their own subforum that could be hooked into the main site comments sections, it sort of became the every-webcomic-except-PA thread. But at some point we just started discussing PA in the general webcomic thread again anyway. When did that happen? I don't remember. But that's at least a fairly active option on these forums if you want it.

palidine40

The comments section under every comic proves to any passerby that this is a community, and is somewhat of an inviting way to get new people involved in it. Imo, its needed. If anything, to try to keep the forums more alive and fresh, and also to show feedback to the feedbackers.

dennis

A community? That wasn't what it looked like to me. It looked like little isolated pockets of comments that didn't in any way connect together. Like any disqus, etc. comments on a random web site you run across. Discoverability of the rest of the PA Forums as a community (at least from the comic comments) was low.

cB557

palidine40 wrote: »

The comments section under every comic proves to any passerby that this is a community, and is somewhat of an inviting way to get new people involved in it. Imo, its needed. If anything, to try to keep the forums more alive and fresh, and also to show feedback to the feedbackers.

I can see thinking that if you're used to reading the comments through the forums, but don't forget that that was linked to the comments section below every strip. I expect that the vast majority of people from outside the forums are commenting through that with no idea that there's a forum on the other end.

Ringo

But you need a forum account to comment, so they had to come here at least once

cB557

I could swear you could do that from the main site, but it's been years since I made my account so I'm not sure.

dennis

cB557 wrote: »

I could swear you could do that from the main site, but it's been years since I made my account so I'm not sure.

That's my memory as well.

RatherDashing

So are we going to end up having somewhere to discuss the comments? I need to make sure everyone knows I got the Importance of Being Earnest joke from weeks ago!

Vitari

A general PA Comic Discussion Thread in the Hub would be a good stop-gap until automagic integration happens again

DJ Eebs

We should have a solution for this shortly, I'll let everyone know when we've got everything turned on again.

dennis

Really appreciate having the comic threads back!

Edit: And I also really like how the link now it takes you to a page with the comic AND the newspost (if it exists). This is an incredibly handy improvement.