Tags and other new features!
As promised, we’ve been busy working on a number of issues to help improve coComment. While we’ll never be finished with this, we thought it was a good time to bring out the latest stuff we’ve been working on.
What we’ve added:
TAGS
Tags will help you organize your comments and conversations more efficiently. By tagging your comments with the term(s) of your choice when you submit a comment, you’ll be able to easily follow all resulting comments and conversations under that tag. On the ‘Your conversation’ page, you can see all tags you’ve entered. Simply click on these tags to view all related conversations.
Add tags to your comments
The tagging process is very simple. When submitting a comment, [1] click on the coComment button as you usually would. This will bring up the coComment popup, where you can [2] enter whatever tag(s) you like in the “tags” field. [3] Click the ‘ok’ button and [4] submit your comment as usual.
More RSS feeds
Now every article and blog has also its own RSS feed.
On the ‘Your conversations’ page, there are now two feeds:
- Conversation - use this to get an RSS feed tracking all conversations related to comments you have made.
- Comments - a highly requested feature from coComment users - allows you to follow only comments made by a specific user/blogger.
MISC
- Help for integrating coComment to your blog
- Personalized buttons
- Forum search
- bugfixes
WHAT’S NEXT:
We’re still working on a number of things like…
- conversation crawling - to let you follow all conversations, not just those made by coComment users
- browser extension - to completely eliminate the need to click on the bookmarklet when submitting a comment
- privacy features - to allow you to remain fully anonymous when you prefer
- spell checking - to make sure your comments are as perfect as possible!
- blog integration - to add lots of cool functionalities around your comments… (we won’t say what exactly, but we’re sure you’ll like them!)
Thanks again for using coComment, and please contact us in the forum with your feedback on the latest features!
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March 6th, 2006 at 23:06
As you can expect, I’m trying the tagging features straight away! It would be nice to not have to click on the coCo logo to enter the tags. How about adding a small field below or next to it?
March 6th, 2006 at 23:16
Steph, that’s coming soon. We plan to bring you the choice of having options in the popup as today or having them directly displayed so that you can directly use them without the need of extra clicks. We are working on a kind of coComment-bar display below the comment field that will contain these features:
Track only | Tags [_________] | Rate ***** | [] publish to my blogbox
What do you think? which options would you like to see directly?
March 6th, 2006 at 23:43
Very nice features !!
March 6th, 2006 at 23:54
Tags, for certain. “Rate” doesn’t seem very clear. I’d be afraid different people will use it for different things. Or is it only supposed to be an internal type of rating? What does publish to my blogbox do? Isn’t everything normally published to the blogbox?
PS: sorry I’m not too coCo-active, school started and the blog directory project I told you about is moving faster than expected
March 7th, 2006 at 00:30
Steph, your right. Currently ALL comments are published in the blog box. But we could change this — if this is what our users want.
March 7th, 2006 at 00:36
Other au singulier
March 7th, 2006 at 00:37
I would rather have a “don’t publish” checkbox. Otherwise it makes it look like the publishing is optional.
March 7th, 2006 at 04:12
I don’t know if this would make much sense or not, but how about a list of pre-defined tags that we have set up for our account? Maybe just a dropdown checkbox list where we can select tags we commonly use (instead of typing them in for each and every comment). Of course the ability to manually type in tags would still need to be there, but could be a huge timesaver for people who leave lots of comments ;-).
March 7th, 2006 at 05:24
You deserve this: “Genius! Work of genius!”
March 7th, 2006 at 07:36
Steph,
for the options I suggested you’re right, a “don’t publishâ€? checkbox would be better.
Rate ***** was meant to be used in addition to tags, to help users filter their conversations by importance. I could also imagine 3 status [-] not important | normal | important [+] . does this make sense?
@easton, thanks from all the team
March 7th, 2006 at 07:40
I agree that there needs to be at least an option to have a cocomment bar where you can enter tags direct on the page without clicking the button.
That list of ‘coming soon’ looks good — although I hope you’ll be kind enough to release a duel browser-extention greasemonkey-script — because I’d rather not run another full-level extension
Forum search — well having the box on the main page is nice, but I’m glad you didn’t get rid of the advanced search, as I use that rather a lot
March 7th, 2006 at 07:43
Oh, and I would also definately reccomend having the tag links on comments follow relTag…
March 7th, 2006 at 10:18
It seems there isn’t yet a Javascript variable to preset the tags with the tags used in the post to be commented.
Would love to see that to integrate it into my WordPress plugin.
March 7th, 2006 at 11:46
I would like to have not only “conversations” and “comments” in the feeds, but also in a web page. That is, apart from having in the top of the coComment webpage “Your conversations” it would be very usefull to have “Your comments”.
March 7th, 2006 at 16:29
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March 7th, 2006 at 21:33
wolfalex,
what do you mean? you would like to have a lighter view only with your own comments. Without conversations around them?
So simply a list of you comments? or a tagcloud with extract from your comments displayed in different font-size depending on the conversation activity (total nb of comments)?
Just discussing ideas…
March 8th, 2006 at 09:14
I would like a lighter view only with my comments, without conversations around them.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:43
I’d vote good idea++ to the browser extension - even a greasemonkey script would suit me a lot better than having to click on a bookmark.
I just signed up 5 minutes ago; and I get the idea - just the interfaces available don’t communicate how it works very well at all.
… nor does the co comment icon!
March 10th, 2006 at 05:02
Neato… Love the tagging… You guys rock but as someone said, we have to manually try it and for those using the Greasemonkey script, this becomes useless.. It would be nice if someone alerted the script makers to add an extra box below the comment called Tags which would automatically add the tags to coComment.
Keep it up guys!
March 12th, 2006 at 04:37
Awsome, keep p the good works! I’m testing Yahoo Alerts with coComment right now…
March 15th, 2006 at 13:58
I don’t like bars what I like to see is less clicks or no clicks at all. Make a nice Firefox extension thats running in the background where you can select options if needed. Browser bars take a lot of viewing space.
* First make the program work correctly;
It still does not track all comments, in fact it does not track most comments or wrong comments.
* Than if all works well, make it nicer if you want but I don’t want to look at it I want to work with it becouse It has great potential.
Cheers
Eljo
March 18th, 2006 at 05:30
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