Welcome to the Commenty Goodness!!

by John Shore on October 11, 2010 · 25 comments

It’s done!

Check out the all-new, all-good commenty wonderfulness!

Intense Debate is now in the house.

Johnny feel good.

It’s been driving me crazy how under served the people who comment here have been. Being able to buff out the comments section is a huge reason I moved to a self-hosted blog.

And it worked! Here we have it!

Oh, buy yayeth.

{ 25 comments… read them below or add one }

Ace October 13, 2010 at 6:30 am

John – is there some way to increase the character limit of comments? We're a verbose bunch here and it seems to cut you off pretty soon.

Also, on older posts, it seems to have stripped out some of the nested replies and longer comments, which seems a shame to me to destroy the old threads.

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John Shore October 13, 2010 at 6:31 am

Lemme look into both; both are … bad. Sorry about that.

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BlackEyed_Susan October 12, 2010 at 6:53 am

@John

At one point, and perhaps it was directed at only one person due to her particular mel-ness, you requested abastaining from addressing questions directly to you via this blog. I have a couple of questions that may have to do with homosexuality and one that is a general one about Christianity. Better to email, or go for it here?

Susan

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John Shore October 12, 2010 at 6:57 am

Either is fine. As you noted, I was only requesting that one particular person to choose between addressing me personally and being blocked off the site. But that was a very particular case. Feel free to ask me anything either on the blog or to me personally via email.

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rm8471 October 11, 2010 at 10:14 pm

Wissen Sie, ich bin total verwirrt jetzt.

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rm8471 October 11, 2010 at 10:15 pm

You do realize that I am totally confused now.

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myfanwe October 11, 2010 at 7:44 pm

I hope all this dust will settle soon. *cough* it's not good for my asthma. LOL

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Beth Luwandi October 11, 2010 at 6:46 pm

But what does it all mean? That's what I want to know…

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blueberrypancakesfordinner October 11, 2010 at 6:38 pm

here!

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William Ely October 11, 2010 at 6:35 pm

Wow, love the new setup! Big improvement!

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Mary October 11, 2010 at 6:26 pm

The change is freaking me out. LOL

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Susan October 11, 2010 at 6:14 pm

Woot!

Fyi: "Recent Comments" aren't linking to the comments.

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John Shore October 11, 2010 at 6:28 pm

I don't know what you're saying/meaning. AND I'm pretty sure I don't want to … !

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John Shore October 11, 2010 at 6:34 pm

Oh, I gotcha: You mean over on the sidebar, in the box that says "Latest Comments." Good call! I'll go deal with that. Thanks for noticing that.

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Susan October 11, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Fixed.

Fabuloso!

Awesome job!

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John Shore October 11, 2010 at 6:07 pm

It's on, baby!

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Kara October 11, 2010 at 5:25 pm

Testing, one, two, three…

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FreeFox October 11, 2010 at 6:39 am

It seems to me that there still is something winky with the comments. I tried to comment on your Alpha Boy blog, and the first attempt is now stuck on “awaiting moderation”, while a second, independent comment seems to just get swallowed… (If I sent it now three times by re-trying, please feel free to delete all but the latest version…)

Well, I *hope* it’s some wonkiness and I haven’t for some reason gotten some ban on your site… ^_^’

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Mindy October 11, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Of course you've been banned, FreeFox. You're a naughty boy, don'tcha know?!

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Ace October 11, 2010 at 6:38 am

I noticed clicking on the bully post, the original comments pop up for a fraction of a second, then disappear as the post-changeover comments are loaded.

So they are there, somehow, but they get disappearedified or something.

Maybe a javascript issue?

Dunno.

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FreeFox October 11, 2010 at 5:16 am

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit?

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John Shore October 11, 2010 at 4:51 am

About 50% of the "old" comments have thus far synced into Intense Debate, the program that'll be doing my comments (which I'm seeing here for the first time. I like it!)

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John Shore October 11, 2010 at 4:50 am

Whoa.

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Don_C October 11, 2010 at 4:42 am

A little Pepto can take care of that. :)

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Ace October 11, 2010 at 4:23 am

All this change is upsetting my delicate constitution, you know. ;)

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