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September 01, 2006

New Comment System - Sticky Post

As the title says a new comment system has been plugged in to replace the default MT system.

Please let me know either here via comments or via email if you're having any problems with the new system.

As you all know, comment spammers basically forced our Blacklist function to get so restrictive that few people could get a comment through... including us. TypeKey works great but clearly was not very popular with our readers. So we've gone back to the system that we started out with in the very beginning - Haloscan.

Note that those of you with a firewall may need to disable or reconfigure how it deals with pop-up ads since Haloscan uses a pop-up script. I know that I've had problems opening Haloscan comments thru my firewall. I know there's a way to reconfigure the Haloscan script so that it just opens up a new page rather than a pop-up window. I don't have the time to track it down right now and I'm not sure we want to go that route anyway. Let me know if you've used that method elsewhere and prefer it, though. We can be persuaded.

Also note that for the time being the Recent Comments listing on the right-hand sidebar won't reflect new comments unless/until I figure out how to convert it or replace it with a script that will perform the same function with the new comment system. I'm pretty sure that one or more fixes to that particular issue are available... somewhere. But I've been working very long hours and work and won't have the time to even look for one until this weekend at the earliest.

Posted by Kevin at September 1, 2006 10:06 PM