SubscribeMore features coming this weekend
Once again we’ll be going down for maintenance for a couple of hours this weekend, I’ll let you know of the exact time in advance. This time to introduce the following new features:
All comments in your feed. When you’re tracking a new conversation, co.mments doesn’t add any existing comments to your RSS feed. Instead, it waits until new comments are available. I know several people found it confusing, and it doesn’t seem as useful as I though it would be. Once the change is in place, your RSS feed will collect all comments from the conversations.
More aggressive comment tracking. There’s a lag between the time a new comment is posted and when co.mments finds it. A few key changes to the algorithm will shorten this lag, especially for blogs that have active discussions going on.
Ping service. An even better way to reduce the lag, by letting blogs ping co.mments when a new comment is posted. Once operational, and if you enable the ping service on your blog, new comments will show up in a matter of minutes. We’re going to start with WordPress and MovableType, then Blogger.
Better documentation. We have a Blog and a Wiki. It’s a great way to get involved in what’s happening, learn new tricks, talk about features you want, report bugs that need to be fixed. More details later this week.
And as always a few behind the scenes improvements that you won’t notice, but will improve the service.
Posted by Assaf in Announcements on Friday, March 3rd, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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March 5th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
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Sterling Camden
March 6th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Great! Especially the first feature. Just signed up today. On the “Ping” service, will there be some sort of script I can plug in? I don’t use any of the blogging services you mentioned — mine is more custom.
Assaf
March 6th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
I’m glad you like it.
There will be a script, so it can work with just about any blog where you can change the template. Just one line to change.
I’ll post all the details on this blog later in the week.
Sterling Camden
March 6th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
coolness. so far it beats cocomment.com.
Tool time for bloggers — Chip’s Quips
May 27th, 2006 at 11:48 am
[…] coComments has some specific requirements of a site to enable capture, while co.mments seems to work on a lot more sites (including this one). coComments has also had a few glitches that have gotten in the way, whereas so far my experience with co.mments has been “it works”. My only beef with co.mments so far is that the feed will only give you each comment once. After you’ve looked at it, refreshing the feed doesn’t give it to you again. But, that is on their list for the upcoming update. I’m also impressed with Assaf (who seems to be the lead developer for co.mments). The site has an open blog, and he responded very quickly and in a friendly tone when I added a post suggesting a new feature. […]