Wed Feb 12 2020

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FastComments Default Avatars Using Gravatar

What's an Avatar?

An avatar is the profile icon associated with every account and displayed next to every comment.

What's Gravatar?

Gravatar brands itself as "A Globally Recognized Avatar". It's a service where you can define an avatar for a specific email. Any products you sign up for using that email can then use that avatar. This simplifies the process for people signing up for FastComments since their avatar is set up automatically.

So what's the change?

FastComments will now pull default avatars from Gravatar. You or your users don't have to do anything to take advantage of this feature.

If your existing users have already set their own avatar - no worries - we aren't going to overwrite their custom avatars. Additionally, users can still replace the Gravatar avatar in FastComments.

Wed Feb 05 2020

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FastComments Gets Localized

Localization is no small step - and it's arrived at FastComments. The embeddable comment widget is now fully localized in English (en-us), Spanish (es-es), and French (fr-fr).

You'll notice that we haven't slowed down, either. Generally, when most applications add localization support, the bloat starts to set in. In our case, the client-side script has actually decreased in size as we've done some housekeeping and other optimizations at the same time.

If you'd like FastComments translated into your language, or you've spotted a translation issue, let us know.

Mon Feb 03 2020

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Threaded Pagination Comes to FastComments

FastComments now supports pagination without collapsing content! Also, if you want to read a long thread quickly, FastComments has a "Load All Comments" button on long threads (like here).

This means that if you have hundreds of replies on a page, we won't slow down your site by loading them all at once. Once the user scrolls down to your comment section and reads past the 30 comments we load initially, they can click "Show Next 30 Comments" to quickly load the next set and continue reading.

It's also well optimized, as usual. If you're into that kind of thing, read about it on our engineering blog.

This requires no additional setup from you! Existing customers will get this feature. Enjoy FastComments.

Thu Jan 30 2020

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Image Uploads Come to FastComments

A picture is worth a thousand blog posts, right?

Mon Jan 27 2020

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What Notifications Does FastComments Send?

Learn about how FastComments might - or hopefully might not - annoy you.

Wed Jan 22 2020

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FastComments Gets Avatars

After launch, this was the most requested feature, so here it is.

If you are logged in and comment, or view your existing comments, you'll see there is now an empty profile picture next to your name.