SubscribeTechCrunched
Yep, we’ve been TechCrunched. This is old news by now, at least at the rate the blogopshere is moving, but still bears repeating. Lots of positive comments, so I guess we’re on to something good.
As Michael says, “The site is a bit raw and unstable”. After all, it started from a small project to scratch an itch, to solve a problem I had. For a while, I ran it on my computer, checking for new comments every morning, before I realized it begs to be shared with more people.
How many more people? It grew from two to ten, and then Scoble and MetaFilter posted about it … and the server crashed. The rest of the week was an excercise in patience, as it was barely keeping up with the load. It took a few more weeks to get things straightened up.
Last week it was finally getting ready for prime time. I’m glad to see it’s managing well so far, but then you’d expect that from open source technologies.
And the more people use it, the better feedback we get to keep improving. I especially like Michael’s suggetions:
As co.mments evolves, there are a number of features I’d like to see added. First is a way to tag posts while bookmarking them for easier search later, as well as grouping with other users’ bookmarks by tag. There also should be more social aspects in general - for example, I’d like to know if others (and who, and how many) are also tracking a post.
One unavoidable issue - you can’t hit the bookmark button unless you are on the permanent URL for a post. Just being on Techcrunch.com, for example, won’t work. A nice feature would be a drop down list of all posts that are included on a URL (which would be easy to do by looking at the RSS for a page) if you aren’t on the permanent URL page for a post.
All better ways to help you stay on top of the conversations. That’s the official co.mments moto. And yes, there will be more great stuff coming down the road.
Posted by Assaf in Announcements on Monday, March 20th, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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March 20th, 2006 at 10:43 am
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TDavid
March 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Giving your comment system a whirl and comparing to coComments. Signup was painless.
Assaf
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:23 am
Thanks
Just trying to make this service as simple as possible.
physio
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Is this why the system sems to be acting up? After i use the bookmarklet and click on the pop up thing to take me to my conversations being tracked, I am taken to a page that shows my username. However, if I try to actually log in at a different time using that username I am told that it doesn’t exist.
Frustrated…
Assaf
March 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pm
If it shows your username, then you are logged in, and it’s using your account.
If it doesn’t allow you to login, the only explanation I have is that it doesn’t recognize the password. You can try resetting the password, or e-mail me and we’ll solve it.
Fred
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Hi Assaf,
It is really a great service! Simple and effective. Do not worry about the little glitch that can came up from time to time, people know that it is new and that it is free so the only thing we can do is waiting for the next steps
I would put my to pennies in the development of co.mments.com:
Why not popping up the blog posts that have new comments at the top of the list? That way I would not have to scroll the list down to check for posts with new comments. Also, why not creating categories where I could classify the posts I track? An extension of that idea: tagging the tracks, and then displaying a sort of “tag cloud” with my tagged tracks. It could then be extended to aggregations of tags. So eventually I could search for a tag and receive all the blog posts tracked with that tag… or something like this.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
Salutations,
Fred
Assaf
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Thanks
All good ideas. Looks like putting new comments at the top of the list is the number one requested feature. Working on it this week.
I’d also love to see tagging, but it will have to wait for April.
Fred
March 24th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Hi Assaf,
Great, I look forward for them
Take care,
Salutations,
Fred