You know, commenters, you and I have never really talked. I love what you do down there below these posts. I just read your stuff and I laugh and laugh. Let me run this by you, because you’re sharp guys and gals. We’re thinking about improving the comments section. How would you feel about making a change? Specifically, we’re adding these new features:
- A universal login that lets you comment on all the Uproxx sites with having to sign in separately to each one.
- Your own commenter profile, with easily uploaded avatars.
- The ability to reply to or “like” comments left by others, which will really streamline our political flame wars.
- The ability to sign in with Twitter or Facebook.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! As explained The Cajun Boy at the Uproxx flagship, there’s more to come, including the ability to direct message each other (you poor, poor lady commenters), threaded replying, and the ability to earn awards and badges and stuff for various achievements. And as if ALL THAT wasn’t enough, the Gamma Squad guys are giving away a… uh… a something. I don’t know what it is, but it’s free!
[UPDATE: The Uproxx home page is also offering prizes, reaching into the hundreds of dollars! Me? Still offering bupkis.]
As someone who spends entirely too much time in the various Uproxx comments sections, I’m very much looking forward to these changes. I think it will really simplify things and help create/grow a vibrant community amongst the readership. So sign in, set up your profile, tinker around with all the new features, and let us know what you think. Even you, people who read the posts but never comment. Get involved!
(*reads 7000 comments about how much the new features “suck” or are not working properly on Day 1*)
Oh, right. The Internet.
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We need this yesterday! Someone posted that the Breaking Bad season finale was “predictable” and “anti-climactic”.
Hey, this isn’t about Franklin and Bash! What the hell?
needs more corgi.
How would you feel about making a change?
We fear change.
/hits laptop repeatedly with hammer
Can’t you tie it in with Google+? Facebook is the “Myspace” of the 201x’s (I’m saying it is losing relevance).
How will this affect Emily vs. Zooey?
If it is a universal login for all sites… why am I not logged in here after registering (and subsequently logging in) via that giveaway link? Has it not gone live here yet?
Warming Glow hasn’t been good since Will Leitch left
My profile has the default male setting and won’t let me change it to female. Maybe that’s a good thing?
I mean, it’s not like my username and avatar are super girly.
Don’t Gawker this up.
@ Bobby Big Wheel – DG ruined Deadspin.
Hmmm, I could possibly achieve my dream of becoming a top-tier Film Drunk commenter. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.
H’mm, what about awkward sexy individuals like my bad self who prefer to have separate Avatars/Names for their favourite Uproxx sites? Will this still be possible or is it one Avatar to rule them all?
Bit of a strikethrough fail there. Can you fix that too?
Do what now?
I can’t view the main Uproxx site at the office. (I just assume it’s all streaming video & boobies.) I hope the changes don’t impact my ability to open WG or KSK. I might have some sort of debilitating Corgi/fake Rex Ryan withdrawal.
Whatsit in the whosit now?
Not a fan of the Facebook/Twitter tie in, as I have neither and am a curmudgeony old man. I kinda value keeping my online identity separate from my IRL identity (see comment about curmudgeony old man). Though I do get tingles every time I see “+1 Jeteyes.”
I clicked on the free stuff link and was taken to an add for a John Deere lawnmower. Do I get a lawnmower or an alien face thing? Both have a 0 turn radius, so I don’t care. I just want to know.
will we still have Alison Brie animated .gifs? Because at the end of the day, that’s all that is important.
Last time we went through re-registration I had to create this stupid commenter name.
And we never saw Doogie again.
Where’s my gold star?
I watched Your Highness last night and am back to Zooey.
Will this include being notified when someone replies to a comment? Because that, I like.
I was told there would be punch and pie.
testing testing
So what have we learned today? We’ve learned that Patty Boots is secretly a man…possibly a gigantic black gentleman named Roy.
Are we getting an edit function because I’m shitting the bed?
I have actually never figured out how to register and get a profile picture here. And I’m a web designer…
For spiders? Cool job, frère.
@Jean-Ralphio: you should be able to just use gravatar.
I JUST WANT DANGER GUERRERO TO NOTICE ME!
Not really, carry on guys and gals.
I want a realistic, down-to-earth commenting system…that’s completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots. And we should win things by not doing anything at all!
I’m just looking for a site where I can express insane, unfounded bigotry. Could Uproxx be the place for me??
/gets banned
In retrospect this new commenting system was a way for me to come up with a better screen name than I had before. too late.