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   Jacques René Giguère · November 30, 2011 - 11:40 am · Reply→

   Reduce the width of the comment column. It is difficult to read. You could then reduce the font size and put more things on the page ( Basic typography).
   Put a column with the active thread and the name of the last fwe commenters on each thread instead of mixing them.
   Put the names of posters and commenters at the top in larger caracters in some bold way ( not small transparent grey).
   Clicking on each commenters brings us to that comment, not the page.
   Group the comments in bunch of 10 or 25 (à la Krugman) with a button to go to the desired group so with don’t have to scroll through the whole thread.
   It would look like Mark Thoma’s The economist’s view which I find the best organised page.
   And world peace. Sane european monetary policy. Miss World asking me for a tutorial on the ECB.
   And a pony.

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   Gregory Sokoloff · December 1, 2011 - 5:46 pm · Reply→

   Do you have any policy about comments and posts in French? It would seem patently worthwhile and Canadian to accept both official languages throughout the blog. Or perhaps this is already the policy, and nobody is taking advantage of it!
   And…remember, do no harm–this blog is already terrific. An example to avoid: the NYT has just revamped its commenting system, and there are many howls of outrage over the use of Facebook accounts for authentication of “trusted” commenters.

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   Stephen Gordon · December 1, 2011 - 5:55 pm · Reply→

   Les commentaires dans la langue de Molière sont le bienvenue – mais assez rares. Les francophones ne peuvent pas presumer que tout le monde les comprendront.

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   Alan T. · December 16, 2011 - 11:34 am · Reply→

   I finally thought of something you could do better. Paul Krugman’s RSS feed tells me how many posts I haven’t read yet, so that I don’t have to open the window if there are no new posts. Yours doesn’t.