We have a few site updates to announce. First, the small one: we've installed a new menu bar across the top of the page. It has the same stuff the old one did, for now, but keep an eye on it, as we'll be making some additional changes. You can use the menu bar to quickly get to the Transactions Browser and the Compensation page, just to mention a couple of the features we've released over the past few months.
We've also made a lot of changes to BP comments over the last week.
First of all, the userid under a comment's Display Name is now clickable and will take you to comments made by that user. From there, you can see every comment that user has submitted to the site. You can also visit any comment thread that user has participated in by using the "Go To Comment" button underneath any comment on this page.
You can share your comments–or any user's comments, if you want to refer to something someone else said–using the sharing tools and the short URL in the yellow box. You can always get to your comments at http://bbp.cx/i/userid (so mine are at http://bbp.cx/i/2 ). We know many of our subscribers have invested a lot of time and energy into crafting excellent, informative comments, and that's a great way to give people a look at your work.
You can also search comments. Search your own by visiting the Search page—you can click the rightmost link on the menu bar to get there. To search another user's comments, visit their comments page as above and scroll up to the search form, and you'll have the option to Search comments for user 'username,' as in the image below.
Finally, we've moved some things around on the Manage Profile page and added your most recent comments and comment search to the bottom of that page, as well. Click "manage your profile" in the blue login bar on any page of the site to get there at any time.
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Please let us know what you think, and thanks to Rob McQuown for riding herd on the upgrades.
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On the other hand, there are oodles of fun to be had here. I'm looking forward to checking how many times someone has used the word "Tango" in their comment to lend their comment more weight (sometimes quoting him properly and sometimes taking what he has previously written completely out of context).
The search function for comments should take a back seat to the search function for articles. If I search today, for example, for Daily Hit List by putting that into the find bar, I don't get a single one of the DHL pieces. I get a piece introducing the DHL (3rd in sort order behind old hit lists from 2007 and 2006), transaction analyses from 2005 (7th in sort order), and more, but not DHLs. These should arrive first.
Black out the 'Find' bar and use the article dropdown to select Daily HIt List doesn't work. Zero results. (I realize someone might chime in that "oh it's located here" and that's nice in the case of this example, but does not address that the search function on the site is broken.)
Given the amount of content on the site, it should be a priority to get the subscriber to what they want to get to as quickly and efficiently as possible. This has been a gripe of mine with the site for a while, and sorry to be complain-y in a section announcing good new stuff, but this needs attention. It's quicker to find a BP article by going to Google and searching "baseballprospectus.com" + "(what you want to find on BP)" than using the internal search. That's a black eye on the site's design and infrastructure, and I'm way more interested in that being fixed than being able to research comments.
"... more | 11 comments, 10 unread"
(Though, just noticing that might earn this comment a few minuses)
Haven't found anyone near my total comments, including BP Staff...
1. Jeter plays terrible defense.
2. That Plaschke, he be crazy!
3. I like cake.
4. The comments rating system is un-American censorship! (Even though everyone can still read any "hidden" comment with a single mouse click, and most people seem to go out of their way to read those first.)
Maybe I should rethink that last one...
Btw there is no cake.