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The pace of commenting has picked up here so much lately that new comments are often scrolling out of that “recent comments” box on the main page in less than a day. I don’t want to make the box any bigger than it is, so instead I created a new page — right here and in the nav bar as “recent comments” — that lists the 100 most recently commented upon posts. It looks like that “recent comments” box, only much longer — the old box lists only the 20 most recently commented upon posts. This new list also includes the timestamp of the most recent comment on each post, which should make it even easier for you to pick up where you leave off if you don’t visit the site at close intervals.

This new page is currently listing posts going back two weeks (the old box goes back less than 24 hours), so unless the pace of commenting ticks up dramatically again, that should do us for a while. Of course, if commenting does pick up, I can increase the number of posts on the new page to 125, 150, whatever, without causing a major disruption (or even a minor one).

Happy commenting!