SubscribeHow to make suggestions for comment site compatibility?
I’m new to co.mments and enjoying it — I also think that this method of using WordPress to do discussion is intriguing; an open blog! First time on a site I’ve seen that.
Is there a way to make suggestions for comment site compatibility?
For example, I’d like to track comments on the Filter Forge forums, but it gives me the “Sorry, I can’t read comments from this page” error message. I’d also like to see support for popular systems like Livejournal, which doesn’t seem to be recognized. Interestingly, Vox, which is also a service of Six Apart, appears to work.
What would also be helpful is if there was already an established list of sites that are compatible with co.mments. It wouldn’t have to be all-encompassing, but provide a useful overview.
How does anyone else feel about this? I’ll be tracking the comments on this post (update: oh rats, looks like I can’t appear to, the irony!) and I look forward to your insights. Thanx! 
Posted by Torley in features on Sunday, March 11th, 2007. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Assaf
March 11th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Torley,
co.mments does not support forums. It will support most blogs, especially those using WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, Mephisto and a few others.
And yes it does support Vox and LiveJournal. But it can only track public posts on LiveJournal, and can’t track posts that are for friends only.
You can track the comments on this post, I just had to approve the post so it shows up first
Unfortunately, so much spam that I have to moderate the first post, but now you’re an author on this blog and you can publish new posts directly.
Torley
March 11th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Thank you very much for your prompt help, Assaf. It helps me to enjoy co.mments even more.
Hmmm — re: LiveJournal, this is a public post, why doesn’t it work for me?
» http://korias.livejournal.com/1055.html
Thanx again!
Assaf
March 11th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
You’re right about that link. I follow other LiveJournal blogs with no problems, and I’m not sure why it’s failing on this particular one (and maybe others).
=rajeev
March 12th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
make the site openid compatible !
Torley
March 12th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
@rajeev: That will really work for any site?
@Assaf: Can an investigation please be done into why that site’s failing?
Assaf
March 16th, 2007 at 12:01 am
@torley,
I’m not exactly sure, but somehow in trying to read the page, co.mments misses on the table containing the comment. And unfortunately, the answer lies somewhere here:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkorias.livejournal.com%2F1055.html
teamrob
April 14th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Any way it can track google groups? It set up more like comments and not quite a forum.
Assaf
April 15th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
No plans for tracking Google groups.
Torley
April 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
@Assaf: Any plans for showing a list of sites that co.mments.com works with?
I appreciate your earlier help, and I noticed that Commentful has a “Supported Sites”, which includes some forums.
Assaf
April 16th, 2007 at 12:30 am
WordPress, Blogger, MoveableType, TypePad, Vox, LiveJournal and a few others.
Also omments on Digg, Flickr photos, MetaFilter and Upcoming events.
Slob Jones
April 22nd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I used FeedBurner to add co.mments to my PluggedOut blog, because the blog does not have a comments tracking function of its own.
Now I find that co.mments doesn’t recognize any comments on my site.
What the heck is co.mments good for? I see no functionality here.
Looks like I’ll just have to wait until PluggedOut offers a comments feed option.
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Jack Vinson
August 21st, 2007 at 10:09 am
How about tracking answers to questions in the LinkedIn Answers service? These are essentially “comments” on the post that is a question. Frustratingly, LinkedIn only provides a feed of questions - not of the answers to a specific question.
Assaf
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 am
LinkedIn is also a closed platform, no access to their data.
baoilleach
August 29th, 2007 at 4:12 am
I seem to have trouble tracking comments from a Plone blog at:
http://docking.org/?q=node/5
co.mments was able to able to identify the title of the blog post okay. But the content that co.mments identifies is incorrect, and no comments are identified. Is there something I can suggest to the site’s owner which will make it more compatible with co.mments?
pqbon
September 10th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I don’t know if something changed recently in co.mments.com or what but Strollerderby used to work now it doesn’t.
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/default.aspx
Chris Thomson
September 28th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Assaf, You forgot to mention HaloScan-based comments! I guess thats under the “few-others”
Great work
Peter Kirk
July 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
co.mments doesn’t seem to support Disqus comments. And for me it doesn’t seem to track Haloscan comments either.
Assaf
July 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Disqus is on my todo list, but not supported for now. They keep the comments on their (Disqus’s) server not part of the blog, so it needs special handling to extract them.