Comments, Tags, Ratings!

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:27 pm

From the Whoa-Crap-what-have-you-done-BIG department, I bring you the much requested comments system for torrents. Check it out by searching for gentoo for example (our favorite server OS). You can see direct links to comments with the orange talk bubbles now under all torrents search results, with a new tabbed interface for torrent details. To post comments you have to register first if you haven't. The commenting comes in full AJAX glory, so posting comments is never easier.

We have not considered comments under torrents to be priority in the past for isoHunt, as its focus was and is Search, and you can find various comments from all the sites we index. But you requested and we listened, and now you have no more excuse to _not_ use isoHunt "because there's no comments", a sentiment I've heard many times. Wink

And I want to stress that we continue to maintain the largest and most quality torrents search index available. The new comments and flagging (below) will certainly improve that quality.

Besides comments themselves, you can now also place flags on each torrent, marking them as Spam, etc. With increasing popularity and sheer volume of files and users using BitTorrent, spam is increasingly becoming a big problem, as is malware and other nasties in files. So help your fellow isohunters out and flag/comment as appropriate!

Ratings of torrents (star counts on torrent search results) also come as bonus to the flagging. Each flag equals a -1 vote, while clicking on "Just say Thanks" found under the comment submission box constitute a +1 vote. Both ratings (when available) and comments are shown on torrents search results, as we recognize the need to involve the community to easily identify bad torrents, as well as adding a new way to form discussions surrounding shared files. As such, discussions on specific files and topics directly related to files should no longer be posted in the Forum but directly under comments of torrents.

In order to make room for the comments page, you should have noticed since we pushed a preliminary update on Sunday of various interface changes we did to torrent search results. Clicking on rows now bring you to a new page of the torrent details' summary, while new toggles on left of rows of search results retain the old behavior of showing you torrents' summary in an expanding table below each result (an rather unique interface for search that many of you said you've come to love isoHunt for). You now also get standard hyperlinks to torrent details and comments instead of requiring Javascript in your browser as previously, which should be a boon for mobile users and those without Javascript in your browser for whatever reason. There are also other minor improvements across the board, for example you now get torrents you clicked on grayed out in its name in search results.

I want to thank the isoHunt team in for the 2 months we have spent in making this happen. Comments have been on my todo list for a long time but I never found the time to implement it myself until now. I believe this to be one of the most important update in the 5 years history of isoHunt, and the new community oriented features represent a departure from our original mission of simply making a kickass search for any and all files on the P2P internet, to becoming more "social". After all, the internet is social, and particularly so with sharing files. Now share your thought concerning the files.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:12 pm

WELL DONE ISO TEAM!!!!!!! Very Happy

....The comments are much needed on this site as there have been so many bogus/fake torrents lately...
Please if a torrent is fake SHOUT about it in the comments section Twisted Evil

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:21 pm

Yep, gotta say you've done a good job by implementing comments now. As isoHunt is a great library of torrents, I've sometimes downloaded elsewhere because of the lack of comments, but now I should be downloading more here because of the comments feature! Yay!

Very Happy

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:29 pm

Glad you like the new comments thing I've been working on with IH. If you have any critic, feel free to post them here and we'll feel free to ignore them Very Happy

More seriously, if you miss the iframe toggling on the torrent search table, look for the little triangle on the left side of each table line as shown here .

One more thing, posting comments is using digg/reddit ajax like (thanks to amazing jquery) so you don't waste your time on redirection before and after posting and also has cool quoting and markdown syntax.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:32 pm

this is an amazing implement, and will really help out new torrenters (I know, I'm only recent) THANK YOU TEAM!!~

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:44 pm

EXCELLENT

THANKS SO MUCH.
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

Very Happy

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:54 pm

Lemme be here to say awesome work mate!!!

This will make our job a lot easier now the members can moderate the torrents with comments too!!!

Very Happy Camper

Can we add a www.vcdquality link to the 'more on' tab for movie/video file releases?

This implement will surely make Isohunt stay at the top of the list as far as an isohunt forum and I can surely see more members registering to help others by clearing of bad torrents
Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:32 pm

Been a lurker for years, but feel strangely welcome to post now.

I particularly like the "More On" tab. Nice touch.

Kudos.

Beth

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:27 pm

Thanks a lot man.. and its true.. just because now you have added the comments section.. I am going to be regullar on this site.. I was waiting for it from ages man..

Thanks a bunch :)

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:48 pm

well done IH!

Let's hope that this will make the job of the mods a little easier, and hopefully increase the quality of the already superb torrents that IsoHunt indexes.

EDIT: changed from hosts to indexes, IsoHunt does not host torrents, it just helps to find them

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:22 pm

Great job patcito , IH , And any body else that worked so hard in getting this new system up and running.

One question I have though is there any way possible to have the comments and more on pages open up in the same drop down box that the little black arrow opens so people wouldn't have to leave the main search page to leave a comment?

Edited for clarity

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:26 pm

Yeahhhh..... is there any way you could do that and have the page load in the search page like you had it.....? like "already_dead" said

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:30 pm

Old function works when you click the black triangle.

The black triangle is the only place you will get the drop down like you were used to.

Click where the arrow shows the triangle:

And this is the result:

Is that what you meant Ae3 Boomer?

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:09 pm

no offense man, but the reason why ive continually gone to you guys is because there were no comments. im sure some people will agree with me when i say it is aggravating to look for helpful comments and suggestions when there are 20 pages of people flaming eachother for the sake of stupidity and ignorance.

still, thanks for the overhaul, i can tell you put a lot of work into this. but i doubt ill spend much time on the comments sections, and rather look at the numbers and use my gut

thanks again

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:13 pm

Orpheus.B wrote:

no offense man, but the reason why ive continually gone to you guys is because there were no comments. im sure some people will agree with me when i say it is aggravating to look for helpful comments and suggestions when there are 20 pages of people flaming eachother for the sake of stupidity and ignorance.

still, thanks for the overhaul, i can tell you put a lot of work into this. but i doubt ill spend much time on the comments sections, and rather look at the numbers and use my gut

thanks again

Exactly the reason why the option of clicking the black triangle function exsists. Giving users the best of both worlds, those who just want to see the trackers and hash # like users used to see, and those who feel the need to read comments, which was often asked for. You will only read comments if you click on the comment tab, which I doubt you will want to do judging by your post.
No offense taken. Very Happy