JIT loading of comments, eww...
You say it "remembers my place" but does it remember my place across all of my devices? What if I want to link my friend to a comment? What about SEO, will my community turn up in google/bing's results?
You say it "remembers my place" but does it remember my place across all of my devices? What if I want to link my friend to a comment? What about SEO, will my community turn up in google/bing's results?
2. We use HTML5 replaceState to update the URL as you scroll. Just grab the link from the URL bar and it'll take you to where you left off. Or additionally click the "Share button" for a copy and pastable pop up.
3. Yes we render a lightweight version of the pages in a <noscript> tag for google indexing.
Can you explain it in more detail? Are you returning different results to Google bots?
It's not much to use, but enough for google to get at the words and links.
We're not sure how well it works since the project was secret until today! We're going to keep an eye on it and adjust for maximum google-fu going forward.
(Shout out to Sam Saffron who implemented this!)
The fact that there's a permalink bar on every single comment was the first thing I noticed, since it highlights on hover anywhere on the comment.
http://try.discourse.org/t/this-site-is-a-sandbox-it-is-rese...
If you `wget` the canonical URL of the page per the meta tags, it contains all of the comments in the HTML; everything is accessible to the search spiders.