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Aaarggh! New comment features on this site

drhyde on 2007-10-09T13:47:59

Argh! How do I disable the new feature on this site where comments appear and disappear on the page when you click on their titles? It's very annoying, especially when whatever clever CSS/Javascript thing it is that's doing it screws up other parts of the display in Firefox.

And no, "upgrade Firefox" is not a useful answer. Not only do I not want to, it won't stop the feature itself being annoying as hell.

Logout

stu42j on 2007-10-09T14:51:48

Not really a great solution but if you logout, you'll get the standard style comments.

Personally, I much prefer the new system but I'm not sure why they took away the ability to disable it.

Re:Logout

vek on 2007-10-09T17:31:56

Especially seeing as your comment options page leads you to believe you can disable the abomination in favor of the 'normal' discussion style. But it lies.

Re:Logout

Aristotle on 2007-10-09T18:41:56

Hmm. Nothing about the site has changed for me in recent memory.

Re:Logout

vek on 2007-10-10T00:51:48

I have my comment settings set to 'normal' (the other selection is 'Slashdot's New Discussion System Testing') and I started receiving the new awful looking comment system about a week ago for some reason.

Ah, it would appear to be a bug.

Re:Logout

drhyde on 2007-10-10T12:02:10

Ahh, that's done it. Fixed now, thanks.

Preferences

tonyc on 2007-10-09T22:41:45

Go into preferences, select comments, change Discussion Style from "Slashdot's New Discussion System Testing" to "Normal".

Re:Preferences

thinc on 2007-10-09T23:06:40

Mine was set to normal. I had to turn on new discussion features, then turn it off again.

Re:Preferences

vek on 2007-10-10T00:53:38

That did the trick. Now I have my normal sane looking comments back. Thanks.