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.

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

For those of us who run a blog or similar service ourselves, it would be nice to add such URIs to our Co.mments account, and automatically have all comment threads on all posts added, and automatically have new posts’ comment threads added, to our Co.mments account. It would be annoying to Co.mment each post right after you write it. ^^/

Feature request:

I just posted a comment to a blog, but that blog has moderated comments. Because of this, my comment has not appeared yet. I would like to monitor that blog post, but there aren’t any comments up there yet. When I enter the URL for this blog entry, I get the error:

Sorry, but I can’t read comments from this page.

And it don’t think I can force it to add it? There should be a button to force monitor it, in anticipation for a comment to appear later.

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!

I’m wondering if, for instance, a Wordpress plug-in might ever happen, or a Firefox extension? I realize that there are ways to use co.mments in Wordpress and Firefox, but honestly - they’re too much trouble for most people. Anything that requires remembering to do something every time one comments on a blog isn’t going to work for the average user.

However, something like a Firefox extension that automatically sets up tracking of comments every time the user posts a comment on any compatible blog&emdash;that’s nice and easy.

Installing a plug-in on a Wordpress blog is something just about any blogger can do&emdash;but ask most of them to actually edit their templates and you’re all too likely to see a look of sheer terror.

The Sociable plug-in has so MANY different “submit this to” options that the fact that co.mments is one of them is irrelevant - it just disappears in the forest of logos.

I’m not a programmer, but plug-in and extension development doesn’t seem to be rocket science. Surely it could be managed? I’m making my sites friendly to that other service, and I’d really like to be even-handed.

Thanks!

Would it be possible to have an option to automatically remove or archive conversations after a certain time with no comments. Maybe this could be user configurable - XX days.

Some users might not want or need it at all, but for me its pretty safe to assume that if they haven’t had any new comments in, say, a week or two then there probably won’t be any new ones. I’m just imagining my Conversations page becoming pretty huge after a time.

Or alternatively, maybe they could be “archived” in some way. Put on a seperate “archives” page, and maybe only checked once a week or so.

I recently reviewed three comment tracking systems and co.mments was my personal winner. It was able to track all comments except for my own blog which uses a non common comment system written by me.

I read a little bit into the different microformats that are currently in the wild to markup comments and want to add one of them into my tool. The question is which of these formats does co.mments understand? If multiple, which is preferred?

To me the non-official mfComment format looks most complete and sane. Is it supported by co.mments?

Randy Morin uses his own custom blogging platform, and his comment markup is pretty, um, different. Would it be possible to add support for tracking comments on his sites? For example, try any post on http://www.kbcafe.com/rss

Your tracking page and tracking feed are for your own use. But what if you want to share your tracking list with others?

Now you can do that in three different ways. Your public page shows all the conversations you are currently tracking, and there’s also a public Web feed you can share with others. Your account settings page shows where your public page and public Web feed are.

You can also share your tracking list on your blog, Web page or any other place that allows you to use JavaScript. Your settings page includes a short snippet you can paste into any HTML page to show your tracking list.