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There's not a "person who makes all the site changes people want". Site changes seem to always be on a volunteer basis (meaning, do it yourself if you want it badly).

[-]troll13y30

Open thread? What?

Nice! How do I go about adding a feature to the site that everyone can use?

[-]Qiaochu_Yuan13y40

This guy.

[-]faul_sname13y60

Open the web console. Paste the following in. Hit enter.

if(jQuery('.new-comment').length > 0) jQuery('.comment').not('.new-comment').children().filter('.entry').hide()

[-]troll13y60

Thanks!

Is there any way to make this a little more automatic for the future?

[-]endoself13y50

You can make it into a bookmarklet and add it to your bookmarks bar. I don't know what browser you're looking for, but you can google for specific instructions if you don't know how.

[-]troll13y20

Yup. I did that first thing.

But how do I sort the comments by new (and as a list?) Seeing only new comments is useful, but what about chronological ordering for all comments?

[-]endoself13y50

(function($) {if($('.new-comment').length > 0) { var time = function(c) { return parseInt(jQuery(c).find('.comment-date').attr('time')); }; var new_comments = $('.new-comment').sort(function(a, b) { return time(b) - time(a); }); $('.realcomment').after(new_comments); }})(jQuery);

This should work. I put the newest ones first, but you can switch that by changing

time(b) - time(a)

time(a) - time(b)

[-]Decius13y30

How does that differ from "Sort By:New"?

[-]troll13y110

That's in a tree. (new posts under old ones won't be before the old ones)

[-][anonymous]13y00

Flat instead of nested.

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