Out Damn Comments! Bring On The Chat!

Today is a momentous day in the history of SocialTwister. The $pammers have finally won and I will no longer have comments on this site. I’m not sure how others deal with this problem, but I’ve reckoned with it for some time now and, well, quite frankly, I’m damn mad about it.

Two nights ago, Jimmie scripted through and turned off comments on all of the old posts. That should at least cut their interest in hoarding this site with their offers - I’m a poker player and I still don’t like the ads! I can’t recommend more than anything that you NOT use MT 2.x anymore and that you go with the DB version for no other reason than your ability to mass obliterate shiite.

However, all is not lost. An angel came to me with something much better. You’ll notice that now there is a Live Chat option available on all of my posts. This is brought to you compliments of my friends at 3Bubbles. In the spirit of full disclosure, I have been a close advisor to the company and have worked on a number of usability and interface issues (and NO, I had nothing to do with the inital design - sorry Drew).

So why chat? Simple, it’s not hacked to all death now. It’s simple to use. It’s easy to understand. It provides the same level of conversation - JUST WAY BETTER. If the open chat model starts to be a problem, I’ll turn it into a registered model. If the registered model fails, well, let’s not go there.

Indeed. I believe that the inline chat model is a killer and I am happy to push it into this use case kicking and screaming. If you miss comments, well, you shouldn’t - people hardly commented here anyway ;)

What’s that expression? You don’t miss something until it’s gone. Tough.

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