I like all of those authentication options.
How does this work out with the comments interface in the WP admin. Do you still see pending comments and spam sitting there? If so, do you just ignore them and let them stack up?
And my theme with WP comments doesn't get nesting or email notications to me when there is a new comment, even though that is selected. Do those work with this?
Hi Scott and eveyrone - thanks for trying out JS-Kit!
Just a few notes to keep in mind.
First this is not Echo yet. It is only the Echo skin. The full featured Echo (realtime comments and aggregation of conversation) is still on the way.
Second, even though the comment system is pure JS, you can still get SEO juice. You can find out more about this here:
http://wiki.js-kit.com/Admin+Guide+-+JS-Kit+Comments?SearchFor=SEO&sp=1#SearchEngineOptimizationSEOSupport
We love continued feedback so please keep us posted about your ideas here:
http://support.js-kit.com/jskit
Thanks guys!!
Well then, flip the switch for me, will you? Tech Crunch and Scoble have it. What am I, a Z-lister? ;)
Seriously, thanks for the info that this isn't really ECHO. Something didn't seem quite right here.
Interesting solution to the SEO issue. It doesn't put the content with the posts, but at least the comments are on my own domain. I'll set up the DNS and provide some links and see how that works.
You can see on http://www.jangro.com/affiliate-marketing/pissing-off-google-doesnt-pay/" rel="nofollow">myhttp://www.jangro.com/affiliate-marketing/pissing-off-google-doesnt-pay/" rel="nofollow"> most recent post how Echo is pulling in mentions on twitter and other places. Pretty cool, though a little redundant. I can delete some of those if I want. Unfortunately, it cannot pull in discussions from Facebook. There's a great discussion going on there:
http://bit.ly/1Q552G
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To complete the third leg of the comment system triathalon, I must test out JS-Kit. If you've been with me for a while, you've been through Disqus, Intense Debate, and of course regular Wordpress comments.
And now, I'm finally testing out JS-Kit's comment system since they just launched their new ECHO product.
I also thought I'd go bare-bones on the theme for a while and back off to using Thesis for a while. I'll customize it up a bit, bit I'm enjoying the blank canvas. I digress.
The promise of ECHO
ECHO has been touted as the "death of comments" by JS-Kit's CEO Khris Loux. His vision of how comments should work is that conversations happen all over the Internet, not just on a single blog post. People talk about blog posts everywhere, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. ECHO promises to pull all these discussions back into the blog post in real time.
This is a vision that I've shared for several years now, which is why I created BUMPzee back in 2007. I didn't have the time or funding to run with that project, and this is a different approach to the same idea, but I'm still on my endless quest for the perfect blog comment solution: get more people talking about blog posts, no matter where.
Notable Features
There are a few notable changes that this comment system brings.
First, it's Javascript-only. This was my major criticism of blog comment systems over the years as that keeps the comments out of the eyes of the search engines and the blog-owner loses the SEO benefit.
I decided to get over this particular hang up that I have.
Second, since ECHO allows authentication using a variety of services:
There's really no excuse for someone to not be able to authenticate through one of those. I tested a few of these. Some work better than others. Hopefully this will put a big damper on the spammers.
Feel free to give it a try here. Comment away!