Surprising behavior in project favorites

You have to click on “My Favorite” in the navigation bar to see what your comments were on a particular project.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I go to My Home.
There’s the View my: list of things.
I click on favorites.
I see a list of projects that I have marked as my favorites, but I do not see any comments. I’m certain that I used to see them there, but not anymore. I don’t know what changed or when.

-- Disappointment is an empty box full of expectation.

jsheaney is correct in that everyone can see the comments you made, so be nice! You can check by clicking on the one above. I checked a few others and this has been going on for quite a while too. The thing is, most people don’t put comments there if the title or picture tells them what it is.

-- Wish I were Norm's Nephew

I think that is strange behavior. I know that the comments I have added a project that marked as a favorite are notes to myself about what I like, didn’t like or what I would do differently. I don’t really see the benefit of exposing those comments to the general public. That’s what the comment section of the project is for.

-- Disappointment is an empty box full of expectation.

This is news to me, JSheaney. I’ve been using it like you. Luckily, I’m really lazy and I usually only jot down a word or two. I thought the comments were for personal indexing. I never imagined they’d to to the author of the project. I better go check that I havn’t written anything nasty.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

I just wish you could organize your favorites into catagories so you could find that “favorite” you saved way back when….....

-- mike...............

Thanks for pointing to this. Favorite notes should not visible to others.. my fault. And yes notes are missing on the favorites listings since the last favorites design update. I will work on these two things asap.

That would be good, Martin. Thanks for all of your hard work.

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

I agree (and so does Martin) that your personal comments on your favorites should not be visible to others. But the comments you made on a favorited project are still visible to you by following the instructions I posted above. I did think it was an odd way to get to them, though.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Charlie, your instructions do not work for me. Either you mean that it used to work that way (and will again), which I think is true, or I just don’t understand what you mean by the “navigation bar”.

-- Disappointment is an empty box full of expectation.

So there was a note from Martin in the comments that said this was indeed a mistake and that it would be fixed, but I’m still seeing the same behavior. Did this fall through the cracks?

-- Disappointment is an empty box full of expectation.