New Features (Version 0.4a)
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.
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April 4th, 2006 at 20:48
Hey guys! Sorry for not being around much (broken computer and hectic life). I’m just looking at the new version now, and I like what I see! the little “tags” box is going to be precious, and real cool that you have neighbours and the last ten days top lists too. Don’t have much time to look around, unfortunately, but
April 4th, 2006 at 21:22
thanks Steph, and I just saw on my page that your one of my neighbours!
April 5th, 2006 at 01:29
okay. i’m unable to see how to change/edit tags that i’ve put on some comments. where is that option available?
April 5th, 2006 at 08:16
Go to the comment in question, open it up completely (until you see ‘Tags:’). After that text there is a new [edit] link, which should enable you to edit the tags. I know its a bit hidden…
If it does not work for you, please let me know.
April 5th, 2006 at 09:58
I can’t find where the [edit] link is.
I opened up completely, it showed like this:
Tags: digital cameras Delete | Permalink
:S
April 5th, 2006 at 12:35
Now I’m at home, and the [edit] link appears……
Strange~
April 5th, 2006 at 14:21
Very nice features!
April 5th, 2006 at 16:51
xorms, I found where your problem comes from. You have to make sure that the javascript we use on the web pages is really loaded newly and not used from the cache. The browser (and proxies) seem to cache these things for quite some time.
So, if you have the problem that you don’t see the edit link for tags, go to http://www.cocomment.com/js/cocommentweb.js and ’shift-reload’ the page. Then it should work.
Sorry for this, we are looking for a better solution now (but only for the next release, unfortunately).
April 7th, 2006 at 11:21
Good job guys!! coComment definitely is getting better by the day, no doubt about and with Comment TRACKING, you should call it CC 1.0, right?
Thanks for the tag funcationlity and all that. One thing that I like about coComment is that you always, always listen to your users suggestions. Great!! I hope you developers will continue it even after becoming popular.
April 7th, 2006 at 11:26
Sorry for the double comment but I forgot! Where is the “options” page? I have only account, etc and I don’t see a “View Text Field” Thingy there.
Thanks
~ CC
April 7th, 2006 at 12:15
Click on the button [CO ChronoCracker] next to the submit button of the blog.
This will open the options window with the new checkbox
[X] Show tags textfield in page
April 7th, 2006 at 12:58
[…] Aha, Cocomment ist jetzt einfacher geworden. Jetzt kann man also erstens in den Feeds auch die OriginalURL sehen und damit zum Blog klicken und zweitens gibts ein kleines Formularfeld, mit dem ich die Tags gleich auch miteingeben kann! Irgendwie praktisch, nur anderseits müllt sich die Seite immer mehr voll mit verschiedenen Top Views nebeneinander. Prädikat unschön und überladen! […]
April 7th, 2006 at 13:16
Chrono & Time!
A small info before I start this, before Chrono Cr@cker, I was known as Cool Cr@cker in many forums. One fine day just around an year ago, I decided that Cool Cr@cker was just not cool enough, definitely not cool enough and I was racking my brains for …
April 7th, 2006 at 22:58
Great touches! I have been going back to add the newly available characters to my tags.
¶ Although I am not happy that others can edit my tags, considering I may well be the coCommenter who’s created the greatest number of them with my comments. Tagging should be left to the person making the post, not to the community.
April 8th, 2006 at 09:53
It’s hard to say who should be allowed to add tags to comments. We thought that as long as others can only add tags to your comments but not remove or change them, this might be the best compromise. It allows anybody to add the tags he things might be usefull but will prevent you from losing the tags on your own comments.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:12
Merlin, I really don’t see how this helps but I guess you are right upto a certain extent. One last thing regarding the special character, where is our favorite [dot].
Do you realize that I can’t tag anything Web2.0? And one more thing, what about spaced tags like “Operating System”. I can’t tag anything like that here.
But keep up the good work guys.
Thanks Jegi, it’s on!
April 8th, 2006 at 10:30
Thanks, Merlin. I still feel there is potential for abuse but I am willing to be proved wrong—so I’ll stand by your decision to allow the addition of tags and we’ll see how it pans out. You may be right to put faith in coCommenters—so far it’s been pretty good.
April 8th, 2006 at 15:13
Hmm, dots and spaces are a bit of a problem. Currently we use them as delimiters between tags. We could remove dots from that, but I’m not sure about spaces. Personally I like being able to use spaces to delimit tags. We thought about using a ‘+’ sign to separate words (as in Operating+System), but unfortunately there seems to be a problem with these kind of characters on our setup (apache rewrite rules…).
April 11th, 2006 at 16:50
Dots (.) are back! The next deployment will allow you to add dots to the tags again.
April 11th, 2006 at 19:29
First time commentor here.
I’m reviewing my comments in coComment and I can’t find a permalink back to the article on which I commented. That’s a read disappointment. I means I can’t checkup on the article. I stopped tagging the articles in del.icio.us that I’d commented on iwith the tag “comment” because I thought coComment would keep track of it for me.
Did I miss something?
April 11th, 2006 at 19:51
I think you did. Two “things”, actually
Both the little icons on the right in the list of conversations and the “Reply on the blog” links when a conversation is expanded should take you where you want to go.
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