I am a big fan of e621, but I also scoot around on rule34.paheal.net for my non-furry needs. That site is overall pretty awful with its bugs and lags and avalanche of ads, but they have something I would like to see implemented here.

On the side of the page, the first dozen words of the last dozen comments are displayed with a link to the commented-upon image. This attracts more people who are curious about or interested in whatever the random bit of text they see is.

This means more comments, which means more views. This means when a person stumbles across a wonderful image that's buried back in the archives and comment on it, it gets a chance for new people to spot that comment and jump over to the image and give that image (and artist and character and fetish) a second chance at exposure.

It's much more user-friendly than the Comments page, as it's a cute little corner-of-the-eye thing. I think it would increase traffic here considerably if implemented.

I'm not sure whether truncated comments without any context is a good thing. I didn't even notice this feature on rule34 before you mentioned it.

Anyway, you'd rather post it in feature request thread. It's sticky thread and there's lower chance that admins will miss it.

I wouldn't want to see anything implemented on Paheal to be implemented on here.

Patchi said:
I wouldn't want to see anything implemented on Paheal to be implemented on here.

What, things like free image sharing, huge database, free accounts, moderated tags, comments, favorites, image ratings, content ratings, a forum for users, things like that? You would not want any of that here?

Sparkmane said:
moderated tags,

LOL. Do they even have aliases and implications? If they do then they are really lazy.

image ratings

They have them? Like explicit, questionable and safe? Or do you mean equivalent of our score? They have any of these? Where?

Sparkmane said:
What, things like free image sharing, huge database, free accounts, moderated tags, comments, favorites, image ratings, content ratings, a forum for users, things like that? You would not want any of that here?

You just described e621

TheHuskyK9 said:
You just described e621

That was his point.

Sparkmane said:

It's much more user-friendly than the Comments page, as it's a cute little corner-of-the-eye thing. I think it would increase traffic here considerably if implemented.

No way.

That comments page is as user friendly as it can get. Is it too hard for you to use?

Renard_Queenston said:
No way.

That comments page is as user friendly as it can get. Is it too hard for you to use?

I don't use it at all. I go through the Posts looking for images based on whatever tags I am after. I do the tame thing on paheal. However, on there I also get a glance at comments I would otherwise have never seen and thus get exposed to more stuff.

I'm saying this would get people like me looking at more images, and perhaps getting interested in artists and ideas that otherwise never would have seen.