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Everything Ulster Design - You Decide
Right, I'm torn about how best to display recent commenter activity at Evertyhing Ulster in the sidebar over to your right.
- The default way with b2Evolution is to display the "Recent Comments" where you get a list of who has posted and on what topic.
- I hacked that a little bit to display "Hot Topics" instead. Here, each individual post can't be listed more than once, so only the most recent comment is shown. It gives a more varied range of topics at the expense of clarity as to how many comments have been made recently.
- There's also the list of recent posts which doesn't bother at all with comments, but I think it's a related issue. Do we need it at all when you can just go to the Home page instead?
To illustrate what I mean, at the time of writing "Recent Comments" has 10 comments all emanating from the same 3 posts. On the other hand, although the post "Why Blog?" has 4 of the last 10 comments, Hot Topics only lists it once (linking to the most recent comment).
I don't think having all 3 is an option as it takes up too much space. Anyway, let me know what you think. Feel free to leave a comment if you think the choice is too straightforward or feel very strongly about it. People power and all that guff.
Edit
One other thing I should've pointed out is that, from a purely selfish PoV, other bloggers may prefer Recent Comments because their name will link to the URL they enter, whereas in Hot Topics it links to their comment. Don't rely on this staying the case though, if I keep Recent Comments I'll likely link the name to the comment and the title to the original blog post.