Some Blog Housekeeping Matters: Comments and Emails

I wanted to post a quick note about two blog issues.

First, the switch from the old platform last September led to the loss of threading in comments that had been posted up to that point, which made it difficult to follow those conversations. I was recently able to salvage the original version of a good portion of those older comments and restore the threading, so things should look better now (although I think I've reached the limits of what can be accomplished and some comments from the old platform will remain jumbled).

Let me also note with respect to the comments that if there are multiple comments on a post, the current platform defaults to sorting them by "best." You can adjust this to "newest" or "oldest," but it starts out with "best." If I understand it correctly, "best" is judged by likes and dislikes on the comments. I don't find any of this very useful, but at least as of now there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it.

Second, just a reminder that if you are signed up for email notifications of new posts, they sometimes end up in the spam folder. So if you happen to be reading this post and are wondering why you aren't getting the email notifications you signed up for, please check your spam folder and tag the IELP blog emails as "not spam" or "not junk" (or however your email system describes these things).