Tuesday, April 3, 2012

ANOTHER COMMENT ON COMMENTS:  Echo has informed us that as of October 1, 2012, they will discontinue their support for comments on blogging sites.  We had moved to Echo from Haloscan at the end of 2009 when the former took over the latter, and they've been cheap and reasonable with us ever since.

As I understand it, our main free options are Blogger itself, Disqus, and Intense Debate.  Our goals for a commenting system remain:
  • It should be free.
  • It should be simple and clean as a layout matter.
  • It should not require a complicated login, and must protect the pseudonymity/anonymity of our users.
  • It should synchronize with our existing comments, which reach 2,000/month.
  • It should allow comment reading and posting from all mobile devices.
  • It should allow for easy moderation/editing/spam protection.
  • Ideally, it would allow for threaded comments, "like" buttons, etc.
  • It should reward its bearer with riches beyond his or her wildest imagination.
Thoughts?