Comments on: Jimmac. You need comments on your blog! http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/ um, what do I write here? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:22:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Jon Wood http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-139 Jon Wood Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:36:52 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-139 Hey, I'm a PHP (several PEAR packages as lead), developer who uses fSpot - if you need some help in sorting out the server side stuff I'd be more than happy to help out. Hey,

I’m a PHP (several PEAR packages as lead), developer who uses fSpot - if you need some help in sorting out the server side stuff I’d be more than happy to help out.

]]> By: Jukka http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-138 Jukka Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:41:08 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-138 When user has galleries on two different servers it might be confusing why they behave differently. In this sense it is dual-method. If the user would have all his galleries on one server (as most of us propably have) it would be transparent to the user, until he tries to move his galleries to another server that doesn't support PHP (or supports). Sometimes the user might not want to use PHP even if it is enabled on the server. For example when he uses some other language to dynamically create his pages and mixing PHP with it would cause errors. Thus, option to not use PHP should be present and at the same time it shouldn't add any clutter to the UI. When user has galleries on two different servers it might be confusing why they behave differently. In this sense it is dual-method. If the user would have all his galleries on one server (as most of us propably have) it would be transparent to the user, until he tries to move his galleries to another server that doesn’t support PHP (or supports).

Sometimes the user might not want to use PHP even if it is enabled on the server. For example when he uses some other language to dynamically create his pages and mixing PHP with it would cause errors.

Thus, option to not use PHP should be present and at the same time it shouldn’t add any clutter to the UI.

]]> By: Tuomas http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-132 Tuomas Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:51:07 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-132 Whoa, heh.. I never checked the queue before, and I had about 7 of those poker comments there.. Sheesh. Time to add that to the word list :) 3 valid comments got stuck there too thouhg which I released. Whoa, heh.. I never checked the queue before, and I had about 7 of those poker comments there.. Sheesh. Time to add that to the word list :)

3 valid comments got stuck there too thouhg which I released.

]]> By: Pascal http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-131 Pascal Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:20:44 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-131 Moderations works ! :) many thanks again. Already 3 spam comments in moderation queue (I used word list, in addition to "more than N urls" ) but I think this could be bypassed a day as the spammer uses fortune for comment (no trivial spam word) and only one url. But this does good job. Your help was really appreciated. Moderations works ! :) many thanks again.

Already 3 spam comments in moderation queue (I used word list, in addition to “more than N urls” )
but I think this could be bypassed a day as the spammer uses fortune for comment (no trivial spam word) and only one url.

But this does good job. Your help was really appreciated.

]]> By: Pascal http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-130 Pascal Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:38:17 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-130 Thanks for the idea of moderation queue. Though this spam had only one url as the poster and no urls in comments. Thanks for the idea of moderation queue.
Though this spam had only one url as the poster and no urls in comments.

]]> By: Tuomas http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-129 Tuomas Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:25:16 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-129 Pascal. yeah. That is the sad thing: Blog spamming is becoming a bigger problem. Wordpress has a setting that can put comments with more than N urls into the moderation queue thouhg so you dont get them accepted automatically - spammers usually add lots of urls. Pascal. yeah. That is the sad thing: Blog spamming is becoming a bigger problem. Wordpress has a setting that can put comments with more than N urls into the moderation queue thouhg so you dont get them accepted automatically - spammers usually add lots of urls.

]]> By: Pascal http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-128 Pascal Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:00:28 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-128 Great ideas. I agreee with Tuomas: "use PHP if present, else static". The sync stuff would be a really great sutff too. btw, I have to investigate on trackbacks instead of comments (as mentionned by Michele) : I had comment of my weblog (under wp) polluted by a "poker site" with a comment posted (with a fortune sentence) on all my articles. I had to delete them all. Bad news Great ideas.

I agreee with Tuomas: “use PHP if present, else static”.
The sync stuff would be a really great sutff too.

btw, I have to investigate on trackbacks instead of comments (as mentionned by Michele) :
I had comment of my weblog (under wp) polluted by a “poker site” with a comment posted (with a fortune sentence) on all my articles. I had to delete them all. Bad news

]]> By: Tuomas http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-127 Tuomas Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:53:11 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-127 Jukka: not dual - I mean, check if the server does PHP, then use it. Otherwise static HTML. Having a dynamic gallery can be nice in terms of views tracking and such, one could allow user comments on the gallery etc, so it would allow more functionality than static HTML pages. The resize would done once anyway, not on the fly every time someone gets the stuff. Anyway, it might just as well be done on the locally and uploaded. The large images are the bigger share of the transfer anyway. But it might be nice if the gallery could have also a web form interface for uploading in case you need to use a web cafe or something from vacation etc. We just need to come up with a bunch of user cases and see what might be the most useful features and focus on them. "Make it just work" is definitely one :) Jukka: not dual - I mean, check if the server does PHP, then use it. Otherwise static HTML. Having a dynamic gallery can be nice in terms of views tracking and such, one could allow user comments on the gallery etc, so it would allow more functionality than static HTML pages.

The resize would done once anyway, not on the fly every time someone gets the stuff. Anyway, it might just as well be done on the locally and uploaded. The large images are the bigger share of the transfer anyway. But it might be nice if the gallery could have also a web form interface for uploading in case you need to use a web cafe or something from vacation etc.

We just need to come up with a bunch of user cases and see what might be the most useful features and focus on them. “Make it just work” is definitely one :)

]]> By: Jukka http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-126 Jukka Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:29:54 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-126 Isn't this dual method a bit extreme? It might save some bandwidth, but not really any significant amount, since what would not be uploaded is usually only the thumbnail-images. And moving the resize to the server is not nice, we don't all run our own webservers after all... Hosting companies wouldn't be delighted of this feature. Isn’t this dual method a bit extreme? It might save some bandwidth, but not really any significant amount, since what would not be uploaded is usually only the thumbnail-images.

And moving the resize to the server is not nice, we don’t all run our own webservers after all… Hosting companies wouldn’t be delighted of this feature.

]]> By: Michele http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-125 Michele Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:08:11 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2004/10/19/jimmac-you-need-comments-on-your-blog/#comment-125 Trackbacks are much better than comments, as I can see your comment on your log too. Trackbacks are much better than comments, as I can see your comment on your log too.

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