Comments

Early support

Gannett is implementing the Coral commenting platform across our properties. As the technology remains somewhat new, support in In-Depth should be considered experimental. As we learn more about the features and opportunities offered by Coral, we'll add them. Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions, comments, concerns and/or (especially) ideas.

Coral comments is supported on most, but not all, Gannett properties. If comments will not render in your in-depth story, but appear elsewhere on a property's website, then please reach out to the Storytelling Studio.

Call to action

In-Depth supports an end-of-story call to action for readers, linking to a standalone page with the story's comments. Because of the way commenting is deployed throughout the company, comments cannot generally be shared across properties, even if a story is. For example, a story published on usatoday.com will have it's own, unique set of comments. That same story, shared on indystar.com, will have a different set of comments.

Options

The call to action should be configured inside a {comments} block.

The end-of-story CTA requires comments to be enabled by setting the enable property to true. The CTA's prompt will read, by default, "Join the conversation about this story" and the button label will be "View Comments." Both of these can be reconfigured as in the example below. Comments are enabled by default in presto. If they are disabled in presto, this CTA will not display. The module will inherit the story's theme color.

value	purpose	required	default
enable	If set as true, the CTA will render if comments are enabled and allowed on that site	Yes	false
prompt	The CTA text.	No	"Join the conversation about this story"
buttonLabel	The button text	No	"View comments"

Example Configuration

{comments}
enable: true
prompt: Comment on this story
buttonLabel: Speak!
{}

Analytics

Event	Action	Category	Label
In view	scroll tracking	in view	end-comments-cta
Button click	click-end-comments-cta