Saturday, December 19, 2009

Technical Difficulties

Haloscan has finally decided to destroy the world sell itself out to the Echo commenting platform. As far as I can tell, I have successfully migrated all comments over to the new platform, but the system ALSO required a Blogger layout update, hence the semi-wonky appearance. I'm working on tweaking it back to where it used to be.

In the meantime, I'm using this thread to make sure that the Recent Comments feature is still alive and well, as it's an invaluable resource. I'll also be repopulating the links in my sidebar, which needed a refresh anyway.

EDIT: I'm officially not the world's biggest Echo fan -- the commenting is a bit cumbersome and not HTML-friendly. But it was the only way to preserve Haloscan comments without disabling Haloscan from the site completely. The only real difference in the archived comments is that all links to websites etc. are gone.

To comment, for some reason you need to click through twice, once for the individual post and again to comment. BOO. Let me know if you have any problems without being an Echo member, but comments should still be open to everyone without moderation.


6 comments:

  1. <span>Hopefully this will appear in the side bar -- Britney haikus by girlboymusic: 
     
    We were very drunk 
    Several pizzas, empty cups 
    And Britney Spears songs
     
    Feel inferior: 
    long-legged Delia's models 
    and Britney Spears songs.
     
    Things we all know, like 
    the alphabet, McDonald's  
    and Britney Spears songs.
     
    Not my fault I write 
    haikus like Ashlee Simpson 
    and Britney Spears songs. 
     
    (Meaning: I'm awesome, 
    the Kara DioGuardi 
    of the haiku form.)
    </span>

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  2. Hm, interesting, now it seems to think I have Blogger comments on.

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  3. One more test. Seems to be working OK -- here's hoping all commetns aren't totally wiped out for some unknown reason. Grrrrr.

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  4. Testing this myself. (There's nothing intuitive about logging in. Have to guess and experiment and use all of one's IQ.)

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  5. Oh God, this is terrible.  Can you use Disqus?

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  6. Yeah, disqus is psychotic in its own way.

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