Comments

July 29th, 2007 | Posted by Smithers at 7:51 pm in Miscellaneous |

The switch has been made from Haloscan comments to Wordpress comments as of today. It’s all tested out and seems to be working just fine.

You will no longer be able to comment with complete anonymity, a user name and an e-mail address (both of which you can make bogus if you like) will now be required to post a comment.

If you do have a regular user name you will be listed as a Top Commenter on the sidebar just beneath the Recent Comment and Recent Trackback widgets. I’ll be getting rid of the Haloscan Recent Comment widget later this week.

Haloscan comments will still be available for old posts. If you click on the standard comments link beneath the post you will open up the new Wordpress comment section. If you scroll up just a bit you will find a link to the Original Haloscan Comments and clicking this link will open up any available old Haloscan comments for the post. So all your hilarious comments will be preserved for all of eternity.

Finally, if you want to update your bookmarks, the new RSS feed for comments has been moved from Haloscan to this location.

OK Homme, you should be totally stoked now.

  1. 6 Responses to “Comments”

  2. By T3 at 9:06 pm on Jul 29, 2007 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    boo! there was nothing wrong with haloscan.

  3. By Smithers at 9:32 pm on Jul 29, 2007 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    boo! there was nothing wrong with haloscan.

    Well, nothing wrong with the mechanics of Haloscan. It just seemed to be a bit flaky in it’s performance. I dumped Blogger because I was constantly irritated at it’s delays in updating and miscellaneous server issues. Haloscan has been just as bad lately.

    I have resisted moving off Haloscan because I have been using it for years now and have 12,000 comments on it. But I don’t want to put up with Haloscan problems any more.

  4. By Homme at 5:59 am on Jul 30, 2007 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    I love you Smithers!!! (in a plutonic sort of way)

    Now I can read a comment and know which post it belongs to :)

  5. By Super Rookie at 8:16 am on Jul 30, 2007 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    thank you smithers.

  6. By (dis)pencer at 4:42 pm on Jul 30, 2007 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    screw TROY, ROY, and CRY.

    i’m going for STCY!

    yeah, that’s Smithers Top Commenter of the Year, baby!

    woo!

    i’ve been training hard, and i think it’s gonna be my year.

  7. By Smithers at 7:01 pm on Nov 28, 2008 | Comment | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    Comments closed on this post effective today due to spamming.

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