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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 shown next to every comment.

What's Gravatar?

Gravatar brands themselves as "A Globally Recognized Avatar". It's a service where you can define an avatar for a given email. Any products you sign-up to using that email can then use that avatar. This removes a step for people signing up to FastComments since their avatar is setup automatically.

So what's the change?

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

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

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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 in your language, or you've spotted a translation issue, let us know.

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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 aren't going to bog down your site by loading them all up at once. One 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.

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Wed Jan 22 2020
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FastComments Gets Avatars

After launch this was the most asked for 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.

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