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I had access to it since the beginning as an uploader, but even to this day it still lacks essential features to make it useful.
There are not enough reaction icons to express, well, a reaction. Sure the most important ones are there, but there's no reason not to copy the ones used in the forum and replace them with the MD cat.
I admit I haven't checked, but last time the maximum number of characters allowed was too low. It was something like 2000 characters and for comparison, only these two paragraphs are above 500 symbols. You can easily guess that any deeper analysis, like you see in many chapters, would either be impossible or require the "xitter threading" method of doing "1/n" and such.
And this leads to the next point, which is replies. Not like you can reply as it is (the button is disabled), but the narrow sidebar view doesn't really lend itself to anything but a linear view like the forum does. And sure, that is fine, as long as the new commenting system allows backlinks that would highlight/scroll up to the replied to comment, and have a way to quote the comment or part of it. Which brings us to...
These comments have no way to format text, at least not in a documented manner. I don't care about changing colours to single letters (it shouldn't be a user feature anyway, in my opinion), but being unable to emphasize words, either italics or boldface, or explicitly mark something as a quote, or add inline icons, which could be the MD cat, or hide something behind a spoiler mask, or make a word a link to some other place, really makes the whole thing nearly unusable.
By the way, this whole post is almost 1700 symbols (letters, numbers, punctuation) and it isn't even that well written.
There are not enough reaction icons to express, well, a reaction. Sure the most important ones are there, but there's no reason not to copy the ones used in the forum and replace them with the MD cat.
I admit I haven't checked, but last time the maximum number of characters allowed was too low. It was something like 2000 characters and for comparison, only these two paragraphs are above 500 symbols. You can easily guess that any deeper analysis, like you see in many chapters, would either be impossible or require the "xitter threading" method of doing "1/n" and such.
And this leads to the next point, which is replies. Not like you can reply as it is (the button is disabled), but the narrow sidebar view doesn't really lend itself to anything but a linear view like the forum does. And sure, that is fine, as long as the new commenting system allows backlinks that would highlight/scroll up to the replied to comment, and have a way to quote the comment or part of it. Which brings us to...
These comments have no way to format text, at least not in a documented manner. I don't care about changing colours to single letters (it shouldn't be a user feature anyway, in my opinion), but being unable to emphasize words, either italics or boldface, or explicitly mark something as a quote, or add inline icons, which could be the MD cat, or hide something behind a spoiler mask, or make a word a link to some other place, really makes the whole thing nearly unusable.
By the way, this whole post is almost 1700 symbols (letters, numbers, punctuation) and it isn't even that well written.
