Comment, please !!!
One of the best things about having a personal blog is the discussion that you get involved in via comments.
But the comment implementation in WordPress really sucks. Even numerous plugins for the comments area do not help much. Believe me I tried.
I had a vision of how my perfect comment area should look like. Threaded comments, ability to edit them, spell checking, links opening in a new page/tab, preview option before posting, avatar next to the post, subscription option, etc;
I tried to make all of this work for more then a week and failed. I was able to implement less then 50% of my wishes.
But there’s a hope. Soon we’ll have a new service that will be focused on making your comment area into a real discussion forum.
The service is called Disquss. This is what they have to say about themselves:
Disqus is about enhancing online discussion. We are starting with a better comment system for your blog, backed and synced with your own dedicated forum.
Discussion across blogs should be better and we’ll have some cool things to address this.
They are still in private beta and the only reason that I know about them is A VC blog that has been testing them for a while now.
What a simple and great idea. I was waiting for something like that for months.
Just split blog posts and comments into seprate but related areas…
I know WP is getting better and better thanks to Matt, Autommatic & the WP community. But there are tons of things to improve still…
And the comment area was really neglected.
Getting someone else to focus exclusively on comment area and making discussion better… Can’t wait for Disquss to go live.
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