Archive for November, 2007

Widget Doesn’t Work?

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

In the few months I’ve been a member here, I’ve noticed that the sharing widget given on the Settings page doesn’t do anything. The URL given doesn’t return any code, at all. Despite the fact that my blog already has (arguably) too many widgets in the sidebar, I’d like to share my tracking list. Is the feature broken, or was it never implemented?

What’s with all the proxy errors and other unavailability?

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Far be it from me to look a gift horse in the mouth (a free, no-ads comment-tracking service), let alone count its teeth, but –

There seem to have been an inordinate number of proxy errors from co.mments in recent weeks. That’s bad news, inasmuch as I depend on co.mments to keep track of a number of on-line ‘conversations.’

If it’s a question of the cost of more-reliable servers, I’d cheerfully pay a few bucks for the service.

–D. C.

Sites that split comments across pages aren’t compatible

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

I am a heavy follower of Lifehacker, and as such comment quite a bit on their site. I always add the pages I comment on to my Co.mments list. The problem starts at 100 comments, when the comments are suddenly split across multiple pages. Co.mments does not track correctly across pages, so I end up having to add another entry with “?cpage=2″ (or 3, or 4, or however many comment pages there are). Sometimes I forget, and miss out on some comments for days until I notice that one of the pages is at 100 comments.

I propose that Co.mments get the ability to detect “next page” links. For my Lifehacker example, the pager links are contained in a div with the ID “commentPager”. It may or may not be useful for other sites (though other sites do appear to use the same blogging platform as the LH), but would come as a great enhancement to myself and all the other LH followers here.

co.mments Custom Button for Firefox

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I would like to post letting users know that there is a co.mments “custom button” for use with Firefox.

Requirements:

Firefox
Custom Buttons² Extension
co.mments Custom Buttons

I was not the author of the button, so post any comments or questions here