RvSiteBuilder/Serendipity Blog Comments Question

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pjc123
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RvSiteBuilder/Serendipity Blog Comments Question

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My hosting company uses RvSiteBuilder with Serendipity for blog creation. The problem I am having is that the comments that people have added are not displayed when opening up the web page, rather the user has to manually click on the word "comments" to view the comments. The issue with this is that when a user loads the page, there is a very good chance that they will think that there are no comments at all, and exit the page immediately. Is this a function of RvSiteBuilder or Serendipity? Is there a way to fix this so that the page automatically shows the comments on the page without clicking on the comments field?
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Re: RvSiteBuilder/Serendipity Blog Comments Question

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We can not really say. There are so many problems with RvSiteBuilder blogs, that we almost every time have to deny any help, see http://board.s9y.org/search.php?keyword ... mit=Search
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pjc123
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Re: RvSiteBuilder/Serendipity Blog Comments Question

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I see. Since the hosting is free and the Web page portion of RvSiteBuilder works great for my minimal requirements, I can live with the crippled blog page.
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Re: RvSiteBuilder/Serendipity Blog Comments Question

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RXLA44 wrote:
pjc123 wrote:I see. Since the hosting is free and the Web page portion of RvSiteBuilder works great for my minimal requirements, I can live with the crippled blog page.
Agreed, with the free hosting but it would surely be nice if it wasn't crippled! Have you found any solutions or any ways to make it better as of yet?
I don't think it is a free vs. non free hosting problem. I have since switched to paid hosting, but I never tested it to see if there was an option to fix the problem. I also switched to Wordpress as my comments page, but it has the exact same problem that you can't expand the comments. Argh! Their logic is that if there are a lot of posts, it becomes unwieldy for the user to scroll down a huge list of comments or to have to scroll up to see the original blog. Well I don't have a blog and I use it just for comments. Whatever.......I just gave up at that point.
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