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everyvote / everyvote_mini

Election information app for university student governments and other organizations
www.everyvote.org
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What should we do to improve the commenting system? #36

Closed mitchdowney closed 11 years ago

mitchdowney commented 11 years ago

The current commenting system being used in the app is Django's native commenting system, which has been deprecated. It doesn't look great, but it works adequately for now.

I was thinking it would be great to have a threaded commenting system, because that would allow the candidates to respond to comments left by their constituents.

Buuuuut now I'm wondering if it would be better to use a Facebook style commenting system, where a user leaves one initial post, and then anyone can reply to that post in a linear commenting thread? As popular as reddit is, several people I have asked said the reddit commenting system confuses them and looks ugly. I think it's easy to use, but it is true that people are much more likely to be familiar with Facebook's post then linear replies commenting style rather than reddit's threaded style.

Also, maybe the Facebook style commenting would save us some trouble, since we could still use our mysql server and wouldn't need to use postgresql?

scvnc commented 11 years ago

may be nice to hook into disqus down the road, probably don't need threaded commenting before other features are refined

mitchdowney commented 11 years ago

commenting is a secondary function of evmini. top priority is just allowing students to read election information and candidate information for their school's elections, so we'll revisit commenting later.