Dangling Conversations

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Comments are in the house

Posted 17 Jan, 2005 at 14:56 by matt in /System | Permanent link

The fidgeting and hacking is done; we now have comments capability on Dangling Conversations. Can I hear a huzzah?

(The answer to which is: yes, I can metaphorically hear a huzzah now, since you can put in a comments which reads, huzzah!)

The system that's in place isn't entirely done; for one thing, I need to add more in the way of spam protection (probably some sort of CAPTCHA thing, as those seem to be all the rage in Paris these days). I'd like to be able to distinguish the comments of site members from those of visitors by means of the same sort of colour-coding we use elsewhere; the problem with that is that I just might need to go back and do that whole bit properly. Ah, the glorious life of a site maintainer...

Next on the to-do list after making comments better: a proper RSS feed. (There's one in place, as it happens -- automatically generated by the script -- and it's even feeding into LiveJournal, thanks to Nikita. But it could be made to fit better with everything else... by supplying author information in the feed, for instance.) Also, paging.

Comments (6 comments so far)
Huzzah!
Huzzah! Congrats Matt! Can't wait for RSS.
Posted 2005/1/17 22:35:30 by Brent
CAPTCHAs
My favourite style of CAPTCHAs these days is a simple question/answer, made up by you. For example, you can ask "how many 'u's are there in the world 'colour'?' and let people comment as long as they fill in "one", "1", or perhaps "0". It's should be really easy to implement, and if you ever start getting spam, change the question.
Posted 2005/1/18 19:38:14 by Nikita
WTF?
Blogspam?
Posted 2005/9/6 10:04:24 by Kael
Next on my Wish List
Can we make the comments section follow the rules of the normal posting system (can they be processed by the part of the blossomx system in the same way normal text posts are?)
Posted 2005/9/16 19:20:27 by Kael
Spam looks to be back
Posted 2005/10/4 06:58:13 by Blue
Just a test...
Posted 2006/2/8 19:00:00 by matt
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