An experience that generated a suggestion
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I managed to create an excellent block in Telex that displays the posts with the most recent comments and, at the same time, some of those comments. See a screenshot:
With this block, any website can be transformed into a kind of forum.
I installed it on one of my sites, but blogs with plugins suffer certain modifications that I don’t like. One example is the comment form, which no longer has the option to use blocks.
Couldn’t a block like this be added to the normal WP.com experience?
Couldn’t the WP.com comment form be maintained on sites with plugins?
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After another comment on the older post, it appears in first place, as is common in forums:
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Hi there, thanks for reaching out and sharing this feature suggestion and feedback! Using a block to display posts sorted by their most recent comments is a clever way to create a forum-like experience.
Regarding your observations about the comment form’s behavior changing: Activating a paid plan by installing plugins changes the underlying environment of your site. After this activation, some WordPress.com-native features (including the richer comment editing experience) aren’t fully compatible in that environment. It’s a known limitation that our team is aware of, but I can understand the frustration of having the behavior change based on this plugin activation.
It is worth noting that we do offer a Latest Comments block, which displays recent comments from across your site with options to show avatars, dates, and excerpts. I realize that it doesn’t quite replicate the forum-style layout you’ve built for displaying posts, but it may be worth exploring as a native option.
In the meantime, thank you again for taking the time to share your feature request. We’ll keep your suggestions in mind for a forum-like block as we continue to make further improvements to our platform.
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