Keep Track of Your Conversations in One Place
You can now stay on top of the discussions you care about, right from your Reader.
Today, we’re introducing Conversations: a tool in the Reader that makes it easier for you to monitor and participate in the discussions you care about the most.
Let’s face it: it can be hard to keep track of all the conversations you take part in online. When your favorite posts generate an active discussion, you might miss out on some meaningful exchanges. To find out if a post has new comments, you would have to manually search for it in your stream, or enable comment emails, which would then fill your inbox with every single comment coming from that post.
With the new Conversations page, new comments on your followed posts on any WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected sites will all appear in a single stream, including for sites you don’t follow. You’ll now be able to read and add your replies without having to leave the Reader!
You can also view earlier comments by expanding the row of avatars under a post.
Which posts will appear in Conversations? Any post you’ve Liked or commented on will show up there. You may also manually add a post by choosing the Follow Conversation option when you view the full post in the Reader…
…or directly from your stream.
If you decide to leave a conversation, just unfollow it to remove it from your Conversations stream.
By making it easier for people to monitor and participate in conversations they care about, we can encourage more interaction and allow everyone to easily join the discussions happening on your site.
Give Reader Conversations a try and let us know what you think in the comments below! Thank you, once again, for being part of the WordPress.com community.
- February 2, 2018
- Community, Features, Jetpack, New Features, Reading, WordPress.com
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I found this post very helpful. I think it will make following posts a lot more easy, with being able to post back much easier also. I’m also just testing the post back out, looking good.
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How to view on mobile phones or app
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Hi there! You can log-in to WordPress.com on your mobile browser and go to “Conversations” from the Reader. Conversations is making its way to the mobile apps soon!
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This is terrific! Thank you for your hard work!
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Thanks for the great tips
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Thanks a lot mam . God bless you 🙂
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Loving the new feature!!
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The Converations tool in reader has been very helpful in maintaining engagement with Readers. Thanks so much for breaking down its uses.
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Perfect. Thanks!
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Good i like it 👍
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Very good for when collective minds come together, it could change the world forever.
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Very nice feature. I am just beginning my blogging, so I know I have a lot to learn.
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Welcome to the blogging community
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This should be great. Thank you!
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Great that this is also available on Jetpack-connected sites.
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Sweet!!!. Nice.
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New, useful changes from WordPress! 😉
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Yet another “feature” that discourages readers from visiting my actual blog. When they see it in the reader only, my theme, sidebar, and everything else I’ve customized is invisible… rendering it pointless. It’s disappointing, in my opinion.
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Hi there, thanks for your feedback! Reader is just another avenue for your site to get more traffic in addition to the ones you’re already getting directly to your site. People will hopefully come across your site via the Reader leading to more visits you may not have otherwise had.
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Amazing, awesome!!!
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Awesome! Thank you 🙏🏽
I have made monthly goals where I am working toward surpassing the amount of views in my blog, just for personal achievement, nothing crazy.
My blog is about self love. It encourages you to love yourself above anyone else. I’d love to inspire and motivate yourself into loving who you truly are.
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I was just wondering how I was going to be able to keep up with conversations in the future. This is helpful.
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Very helpful to keep the pace.
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That is very nice feature improvement 🙂
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Bravo!
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One more great feature! I noticed unless I go to WP Admin, I can’t take bulk action, say delete all spam at one go.
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Hi Umashankar, thanks for your feedback! If you go to My Sites → Comments, there is a “Bulk Edit” button at the top right corner of the page to enable Bulk Edit mode.
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Thank you Jan, that was very informative. Being a blogging newbie, every bit helps!
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That sounds like a great feature – looking forward to making the most of it.
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Wow, another great update. Thanks WP team!
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Is there any way to make the comment box appear before the comments? I have some posts where people have to scroll for a long time before they can leave a comment…
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Hi Nate, thanks for your question. We’re always listening to your feedback! We order the comments chronologically to maintain the context of the discussion and allow readers to be able to easily follow the conversation, hence, the comment form is located at the bottom where the comment will be displayed after its submission.
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good to know, thanks!
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welcome idea for us to function well.
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Is this something that will be in the app, or just for use on the main site? Because this is genius!
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Hi there! Yes, for now, you can access it on the main site. You may also log-in to WordPress.com using your mobile browser and go to Conversations from the Reader. Thanks for your feedback!
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Such features make life easier. You did an Excellent job. Keep it up.
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