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One of the main advantages for requiring the user to enter in their email address when commenting is actually for the site administrator. There may be instances where your comment prompts a response not suited to, or too large for the comments section, and as such they will contact you directly. It also acts as an extra barrier (although not a very good ...

Very long lines of text are hard to read, and people tend to make mistakes when finishing one line and wanting to move to the next line. Multi-column formats help deal with this problem, but multi-column layouts are not appropriate for every situation. Multi-column articles work well when you don't have to scroll to see the bottom of each column. Think of ...

My web comic doesn't have login accounts -- it's more secure for my site as a one-person operation and it reduces barriers to getting people to comment. Asking for an email address serves two purposes: It allows me to pull up the associated Gravatar with that account, giving the user some degree of identity. Because the email address is not shared on the ...

Option two would be the best, in order to get relevant comments as the user will be required to read the entire article. On the feed, could you not have a comment count (Similar to hckrnews)? this will then indicate to the user that article has comments and thus may encourage them to drill down into the article.

This is not new, they just named the "tag" and "category" differently. For example, Amazon.com, "department" is actually "category," while the filters at the left side of the search result page are the "tags." Instead of making the two panels horizontal, you should make them vertical, because they are lists. Since you can only choose 1 category, you should ...

Internet users are very much used to one (text) column layouts. Depending on your target group (e.g. web developers) you might want to break with this convention to underline individuality. For the web, mainly consumed with desktop computers, yes, this layout is never going to work as well as other possibilities. The experience may be better on tablet ...

I found a couple of links: Topic Classification of Blog Posts Using Distant Supervision Using Blog Tags to Benefit Your Readers and Your SEO Using Categories and Tags Effectively on Your Blog Categories versus Tags – What’s the Difference and Which One? Blogger uses labels, a synonym to tags, to categorize or group posts. So, it looks like a combination ...

Study how users are consuming the data on your website/blog, and group this data accordingly. There is no one valid answer, since it depends on the precise context. For example, both of your proposals may be wrong: Grouping by date may not be useful because: One part of the users come from Google to read a single article, and then leave the website. ...

Reason to include an email address: The blog owner might receive the comment as e-mail, by adding the commenter his/her email address, the owner can immediately respond by sending a reply email. The commenter might receive an email notification after posting comment If both cases do not apply, leaving it out might simplify the commenting experience.

Articles deserve their own page with their own comments I agree with Abhishek Kasina and AJP for one main reason: it sounds like you're dealing with longer-form articles and not simple posts or tweets. Facebook posts are more part of a bigger conversation focused on the user in general On facebook, the posts a user makes are usually short and light on ...