Posted by wmostrey on September 25, 2008 at 12:47pm
I just added the Recent Comments block on http://drupalmu.org and I'm wondering if I should include the node title with the comment subject. Drupal doesn't provide this by default and personally I find that it makes the block look really cluttered.
Here are two examples of sites that do provide this information:
- Bevan Rudge: Recent Comments block on the right
- OnSugar: Latest Comments block on the right
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If you use pathauto to
If you use pathauto to derive "user friendly" URLs for nodes, then users already have a chance to see that information.
Not Your Average User
With your average run of the mill user you can't count on urls to relay information at all. Your average person would need the posts title if you want them to see the title whether you have clean urls or not.
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I agree that the actual
I agree that the actual title needs to be shown is we want the user to know it, but the question remains: should we display this information or will this make the block look cluttered? I've been experimenting a whole lot with this on mostrey.be and I feel it looks cleaner not to display it. However, Bevan who has a lot of experience in the UX field, does display them.
I wonder if we could build a
I wonder if we could build a module where the user can choose what blocks are displayed and maybe what title too?
it should be quite simple, like the user selects a theme they select block, a lot of the code could be used from the blog theme module.
Node title and last comment time and author?
But maybe that's more a block that renders recently commented nodes (with or without comments?)... which is not exactly the same thing.