The whole crazy comment thing
First of all I must point out that the pictures accompanying this post have no relevance to the content at all but I felt that the only relevant pictures might involve my pulling my hair out and no one wants to see that!
I have had a little trouble with my comments of late. For a long time I had been using Haloscan rather than the default Blogger system. This worked reasonably well, not perfectly but I found it easier to respond directly to comments that with Blogger. In fact Blogger then improved their system making it a little easier, well easier if commentors were registered with Blogger, but at the time it was simpler to just stay with Haloscan and save messing around with importing/exporting comments and what not (naturally I write this with no actual idea of the messing about required as these sort of tasks do of course fall to the dear Technical Advisor).
Then in December I received an email telling me that Haloscan would be no more and I must pay to upgrade to Disqus or risk losing my comments, the deadline was 26th December, so in a post-Christmas panic I just paid the money and did it. There were way too many other things on my mind at the time.
Sadly Disqus has not been so good, I know that a number of you have struggled with the new system and from my end it has been somewhat haphazard too so this weekend the long-suffering Technical Advisor has taken the matter in hand and replaced Disqus with Blogger which I hope will be easier all round. The old Haloscan comments are not visible at present but I do still have access to them and comments on the most recent post were received and enjoyed but just not visible at the moment.
So, let's hope that is a firm line under the whole matter and that things will be a bit more normal around here and I do hope that you will all continue to comment because I do so love those comments, it's nice to know that there is someone out there... Thank you.
Edited to add: The very long-suffering TA has just pointed out that I missed out a great big step in the comment journey. In fact the Haloscan enforced upgrade was to JS-Kit's Haloscan replacement which turned out to be not at all what I needed and the dear TA spent too much of his precious free time hours surfing around and doing all that messing around in changing from JS-Kit to Disqus. Yes, the poor old TA has spent a great many hours messing around with my comments these last few weeks which is perhaps not what he wants to spend his spare time doing, given that he spends long working hours messing around with computers. I think perhaps another batch of rock buns may be in order. Perhaps I should make him a batch all to himself.
First of all I must point out that the pictures accompanying this post have no relevance to the content at all but I felt that the only relevant pictures might involve my pulling my hair out and no one wants to see that!
I have had a little trouble with my comments of late. For a long time I had been using Haloscan rather than the default Blogger system. This worked reasonably well, not perfectly but I found it easier to respond directly to comments that with Blogger. In fact Blogger then improved their system making it a little easier, well easier if commentors were registered with Blogger, but at the time it was simpler to just stay with Haloscan and save messing around with importing/exporting comments and what not (naturally I write this with no actual idea of the messing about required as these sort of tasks do of course fall to the dear Technical Advisor).
Then in December I received an email telling me that Haloscan would be no more and I must pay to upgrade to Disqus or risk losing my comments, the deadline was 26th December, so in a post-Christmas panic I just paid the money and did it. There were way too many other things on my mind at the time.
Sadly Disqus has not been so good, I know that a number of you have struggled with the new system and from my end it has been somewhat haphazard too so this weekend the long-suffering Technical Advisor has taken the matter in hand and replaced Disqus with Blogger which I hope will be easier all round. The old Haloscan comments are not visible at present but I do still have access to them and comments on the most recent post were received and enjoyed but just not visible at the moment.
So, let's hope that is a firm line under the whole matter and that things will be a bit more normal around here and I do hope that you will all continue to comment because I do so love those comments, it's nice to know that there is someone out there... Thank you.
Edited to add: The very long-suffering TA has just pointed out that I missed out a great big step in the comment journey. In fact the Haloscan enforced upgrade was to JS-Kit's Haloscan replacement which turned out to be not at all what I needed and the dear TA spent too much of his precious free time hours surfing around and doing all that messing around in changing from JS-Kit to Disqus. Yes, the poor old TA has spent a great many hours messing around with my comments these last few weeks which is perhaps not what he wants to spend his spare time doing, given that he spends long working hours messing around with computers. I think perhaps another batch of rock buns may be in order. Perhaps I should make him a batch all to himself.
Comments
I hope Blogger comments are kind to you now though.
However, on a lighter note, what is the item in the last photo?
What I haven't understood about blogger comments is why sometimes they are embeded in the page itself- making it easy to spell check and other times- like now- when they pull up in their own little page making it impossible for me to know whether I've spelled embeded right- or embedded right.
And I begrudge computer time not spent doing fun things.
Thankfully I’m not very popular (!) so I don’t have many comments to ‘manage’
The other thing you could do is reply in your comments although I personally I find this impersonal and off putting….
Your new header is beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous!!!
But I think you may have revealed to me why so many of my comments come from people I can't email in response, even when they ask a direct question - I assume from what you've written that they need to be registered with Blogger.... oh dear.... my brain hurts now...
Fingers Crossed she keep her promise!