The official coComment weblog

We just released version 0.4c of coComment.

Firefox extension

The most important part of this release certainly is the official release of our firefox extension. Have a look at it at save yourself the trouble to press the bookmarklet all the time. As an added feature, the firefox extension also provides an automatic notification whenever a new comment is made to one of your conversations.

We also did some bug fixes for better support of MovableType and Wordpress and added support for Journalspace, CommunityServer, Kulando and Clagnut.

Last but not least, we added a feature that allows blog integrators to track all comments, even from users that are not using coComment (we already added this to this blog).

New development team

At the same time we have to inform you that the current development team is replaced with a new one. As of now, Dominik ‘hilti’ Hiltbrunner, Jean-Claude ‘JC’ Brantschen, Roger ‘jegi’ Jegerlehner and me, Peter ‘Merlin’ Balsiger, will not be a part of coComment any more.

Good-Bye and have fun.

Congratulations go out to jackyan to be the first to reach more than 1′000 comments registered with coComment.

Of course we hope to see many more users surpassing that limit and even higher limits…

Have fun!

We are very happy to announce that steph is now an official team member of coComment

She was a very active and helpful user right from the start of coComment and has repeatedly supported us in improving coComment. She is also a passionate blogger with a lot of experience in the blogging community.

Her job will be to spread word about coComment and in return feel the needs of the blogging world to determine the most important feature to be implemented for coComment. Furthermore, she will help us defining the future features and vision for coComment.

steph, welcome to the team from all of us.

Page loads faster
Pagination implemented on page ‘Your conversations’. Number of articles is now limited to 50 per page.
You may also show/hide boxes on the right side of the page ‘Your conversations’.

International users
We just started translating the introduction page into German and French. More to follow.

Tags
Tags now may contain dots (again). For example, you may now tag as “Web2.0″

Help pages
Do you have probelms with cookie settings? Check out the new cookie help.

..and many minor bugfixes
Feedback is welcome!

We just deployed version 0.4a of coComment. We added some new features in this release that might be of interest.

You now have the ability to edit tags you set yourself or to add tags to comments of others. Furthermore, tags can now contain special characters (like umlauts and the like, some characters are still forbidden, though). Entry of tags is also now more easy. Just go to your options page and select ‘Show tags textfield in page’. Then you’ll get a small field to enter tags right on the blog page, without having to open the options page. (This should actually be the default setting, but I messed it up… sorry)

We also added a first community feature. In your conversation you now have a box with ‘Neighbours’. These are the 10 people that commented most on articles you commented as well.

If you go to the forum, you might notice that we finally managed to make our own forum coComment compatible. So everything you post there will now be collected by coComment.

The lists with top users (and also blogs, articles and tags) was also changed a bit. We now show two lists, one with top ever and another one with the top users in the last 10 days, showing a bit more the dynamics when commenting.

For developers we also added a JSON API for handling your comments wherever you want.

Last but not least, we added support for some new blogs, namely journalspace, twoday.net, blogger.de, and antville.

Unfortunately, Xanga recently added some security ‘features’ to their pages, making it currently impossible for coComment to work on their pages. We are trying to work something out with them to still allow coComment to work there. We don’t have a solution for it right now, though.

I hope we did not add to many bugs at the same time. At least we also fixed some that were existing before…

Have fun with the new version and as always we are glad about feedback.