Damn it, Echo’s having problems again. Earlier, all our receiving of comments came to a scree-ee-ee-eaching halt. Now, it appears our comments are down. Hopefully that means the good folks at Echo are in the middle of doing more surgery and it’s just sleeping while they rip out what ails it. We emailed them this …
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Fiery Words for Feedburner
Ya know, I hate having to take praise away from people, but it appears I have to this once. Three years ago, when I set up the feedburner by email thingamabob, I couldn’t have been happier. There was a captcha, but there was audio. so yea. Now, I hear they took the audio captcha away. …
Commenting By Email Works Again
I’m sure you’ll all be happy to know that the good folks at Echo have cured whatever was ailing the commenting by email system and it’s now up and running again. Thanks everybody for being decently patient about it being broken, and an especially big thanks to the Echo support team for unbreaking it. They’re …
Echo Email Replies appear To Be Down
Just a little warning. It appears the Echo email-posting end of things is on the fritz. So, you’ll still get comments emailed to you that you’re following, so go ahead and follow, but if you reply, the replies don’t make it to the site. We don’t know why…yet. Who knows, they may all get coughed …
More Echos About Echo
Well, it looks like Echo is coming around. We’re even getting Mac users saying they can use it. It seems like the source of the problem is labeling of fields…I think. One thing I thought I’d mention is sometimes, while the page is loading, it looks like all the comments have gone bye-bye. Try refreshing …
So Far So Good On The Echo Front
The switch to Echo has been going great so far, much better than I had expected to be honest. Thanks to everybody who has left comments to help us test it out and emailed to let us know about issues they’re having. Please, keep that stuff coming, it helps. Right now we’re especially looking for …
Prepare For Echo
A couple of days ago I posted aboutthe impending death of Haloscan and our hesitation about switching to Echo, Haloscan’s replacement.Well, after some somewhat reassuring comments and emails, we’ve decided to give it a go. In a couple of moments I’m sending the payment and the changeover will begin. Because of this, things may be …
Does Anybody Know About Echo?
I hoped this day would never come, but barring a small miracle, it has. In the next 2 weeks at worst or 2 to 3 months at best, Haloscan will be no more. It isn’t going out of business, the problem is that JS-Kit, the company that bought it about a year ago, has decided …
United Breaks Guitars and Carin Breaks Blogs
If you were going through our labels this morning, and wondered what the hell happened to the advocacy label, the answer is I broke it! Thankfully I have now fixed it, and all is well in the land of the blog. It all started innocently enough. I was debating changing our whole internet label to …
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Comments Links: How’s That?
We had a few people tell us that our comments and our trackbacks stuff ran together and you couldn’t see how many comments there were. So…we decided to remove the trackback code. Simple, right? Right? Wrong! We went to the Haloscan site and tried to run the autoinstall. We unchecked trackback code. We thought, in …