New Feature or Glitch?

"J. Walter Weatherman" (J-WalterWeatherman) 08/29/2013 at 14:47 • Filed to: None

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When I click on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , it shows up without it's own comment section, but instead the Alpina article appears directly underneath it, followed by the original comment section of the Alpina article. I have seen this happen at least one other time on the FP. Is this "article stacking" new feature, or a glitch? I don't necessarily mind it for related articles, it just confused me when I went to respond to the top article.

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nobody > J. Walter Weatherman 08/29/2013 at 14:50

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It's the new magic sharing thing. The person who shares an article gets to write something, then there's the shared article with the original comments.

Matt Hardigree > J. Walter Weatherman 08/29/2013 at 14:51

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This is "reply with share" which allows us to "reframe" an article by putting another story on top of it. In this case, I was inspired by that Alpina B3 article to talk about super sedans/wagons. Ideally, this would have a sep comment section. Something we're experimenting with.

Victorious Secret > J. Walter Weatherman 08/29/2013 at 14:52

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Its been going on for a while now and quite honestly its silly.

You get two slightly related articles then lump in the comments for both which really screws with the conversations.

J. Walter Weatherman > nobody 08/29/2013 at 14:53

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I see. I guess I haven't tried sharing an article yet. I do like the idea of getting to add a blurb when you share something. When I tried to share a comment earlier, I didn't get an option to add anything. Do we not get that power on Oppo, or does it only work for whole articles, and not comments?

nobody > J. Walter Weatherman 08/29/2013 at 14:54

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We don't have it on Oppo yet, and when we get it, I don't know if it will apply to comments, too.

J. Walter Weatherman > Matt Hardigree 08/29/2013 at 14:57

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Cool. I like the feature. There have been many times when I have shared something, but wanted to add a short introduction with some context or why I think it is relevant.

For Sweden > Matt Hardigree 08/29/2013 at 14:59

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It doesn't really work with your post, which asked a question. Most of the comments are about the Alpina, which is not the meanest car with four or five doors.

Matt Hardigree > Victorious Secret 08/29/2013 at 15:04

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We're working on a solution for that.

Victorious Secret > Matt Hardigree 08/29/2013 at 15:05

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Most excellent news sir

ttyymmnn > nobody 08/29/2013 at 15:07

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This has happened a couple of times when Matt has shared one of my Oppo posts to the FP. What is interesting is that I get replies to my article, but I also get notifications when somebody replies to a replier, not directly to me. So, A replies to me, B replies to A, and I get a notification of B's reply.