All Pluck Comments / Gannett news
— Last update Oct 24, 2009 — Installed 73 times.When viewing comments on Pluck-powered websites, particularly local newspapers, allows viewing of all comments / responses on one page - instead of the limits of 5 or 10 per-page. Makes reading through all comments much easier and faster!
Version: 2009-10-23
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Once installed and configured for one or more of the Pluck-based Gannett news sites, it will update any loaded news article by showing all available comments on the same, single page. If all the existing comments already fit within one page and the current 5-post limit, the script will exit and do nothing. Unfortunately, much of the previous waiting time doesn't seem to be in the JavaScript, but with the server responding to the JSON requests - a performance issue that can't be resolved client-side. While those requests are made, the script will show the loading status above the existing comments. Once all comment "pages" have been downloaded, the comments section is repopulated with the complete list. Additionally, changing the sort order between "Newest first" and "Oldest first" now performs instantly, without requiring additional remote requests.
Due to the number of possible supported sites, only one default URL pattern is configured to the "included pages" within the Greasemonkey script. Other desired, supported sites will need to be manually added. (This would be easier of Greasemonkey supported regular expressions for the patterns, as I requested in ticket #216.) There are two types of URLs I've observed that should be supported. The first looks like "http://<hostname>/article/<date>/<siteId>/<articleId>/". The other looks like "http://<hostname>/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/<date>/<siteId>/<articleId>". The best non-regular expression pattern I can suggest to match both these patterns is "http://<hostname>/*article*", where "<hostname>" needs to be replaced with the literal host and domain name to be supported.
The only current limitation is that the per-comment controls (Recommend, New post, Reply to this Post, Report Abuse, etc.) are not regenerated. This is because it would be very difficult, if even possible, to make all of Pluck's existing JavaScript work with these enhancements. In order to use these controls, click on the "Full Page View" link that is left below the list of comments. This will bring back the limit of 10 comments per page, but the Greasemonkey script will exit without making any changes and leaving these controls intact. I seldom use these controls, so this issue isn't that important to me. However, if there is a stated interest, I may look into resolving this for a future version. Alternatively, feel free to write and submit a patch!
