Comments on: Good blog software for comments? http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/18/good-blog-software-for-comments.html 20 minutes into the future... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Daniel Lyons http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/18/good-blog-software-for-comments.html#comment-11519 Daniel Lyons Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:06:37 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/11/18/good-blog-software-for-comments.html#comment-11519 <p>I have always liked Typo's comment system because it's very responsive. My users don't seem to like it because they don't notice that an Ajax call is taking place and often submit the same comment more than once.</p> <p>I like threading but users don't seem to care a whole lot about it. Unless they're on LiveJournal.</p> <p>The main problem with blogs is that they deal in topical information, not conversations. Between a friend of mine and I, we used to write articles and then respond with other articles using trackbacks. But nobody likes trackbacks anymore because of spam problems.</p> <p>As far as I know, there is no good answer, and it has to do with the medium more than the software itself.</p> I have always liked Typo’s comment system because it’s very responsive. My users don’t seem to like it because they don’t notice that an Ajax call is taking place and often submit the same comment more than once.

I like threading but users don’t seem to care a whole lot about it. Unless they’re on LiveJournal.

The main problem with blogs is that they deal in topical information, not conversations. Between a friend of mine and I, we used to write articles and then respond with other articles using trackbacks. But nobody likes trackbacks anymore because of spam problems.

As far as I know, there is no good answer, and it has to do with the medium more than the software itself.

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